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The article discusses the main claims, proofs and consequences of philosophical hermeneutics or the study of the principle of interpretation. Topics include the history of hermeneutics, the development of philosophical hermeneutics by philosophers Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer and its use in the analysis of pragmatist thinkers Richard Rorty, Stanley Fish and Richard Shusterman.

The author looks at how philosophers Hans-Georg Gadamer and Richard Rorty interpreted history and the history of philosophy within the framework set by their ontological narratives. He presents his own general interpretational framework, the main characteristics of Gadamer's philosophy in general as well as his hermeneutical approach to the history of philosophy. He also discusses Rorty's neopragmatism in general and his neopragmatist relationship to the history of philosophy.