three, abstracting from what might be distinctive to any one of them. Ricoeur calls this the “deregionalization” of hermeneutics.7 Second, philosophical hermeneutics is not restricted to interpreting texts. Taking that practice as its point of departure, it extends interpretation to the writing of history (Dilthey), to nonliterary works of art (Gadamer), to meaningful action (Ricoeur) and to the entire domain of human understanding (Heidegger). Ricoeur calls this the “radicalization, by which hermeneutics
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