There are four main parts in the text: Ⅰ. On the Primacy of the Understanding Process in Hermeneutics. Ⅱ. The God Hermes and the Meaning of Hermeneutics Ⅲ. Paul Ricoeur on interpretation as ”the crossroads of thinking today”. Two kinds of hermeneutics: Disclosure and Suspicion. Ⅳ. Some Dimensions of the Relevance of Gadamer's hermeneutics today