Introduction * Agencies Human and Divine: Fire in French Cities * Transcendental Semiotics and the Paradigms of First Philosophy * Transcendental Semiotics and Truth: The Relevance of a Peircean Consensus Theory of Truth * Can an Ultimate Foundation of Knowledge be Non-Metaphysical? * Meaning--Constitution and Justification of Validity: Has Heidegger Overcome Transcendental Philosophy by History of Being? * Wittgenstein and Heidegger: Language Games and Life-Forms * Regulative Ideas or Sense-Events? An Attempt to Determine the Logos of Hermeneutics * Regulative Ideas or Truth-Happening? An Attempt to Answer the Question of the Conditions of the Possibility of Valid Understanding * History of Science as a Problem of Hermeneutics: An Argument with Karl Popper's Third-World Hermeneutics * The Self-Recuperation Principle of Critical Hermeneutic Reconstruction of History.