Hermeneutics (n.) is an ontological concern in that, without either a subject/object distinction or a self/world distinction, what is necessarily under investigation is neither subject nor object, but the unity of the structure of 'being-in-the-world'.
Hermeneutics (n.) is not the art of interpretation nor interpretation itself. Rather it is the attempt first of all to define the nature of interpretation on hermeneutic grounds.
Hermeneutics (n.) is not, primarily, interpreting, but rather the bringing of tidings and a message, an act involving the 'presence of the presencing'.
Hermeneutics (n.) is an interpretive approach in which things are interpreted as they emerge from a shadowy backstage instead of lying in lucid conscious awareness.
Hermeneutics (n.) is not a limitation on understanding, but a precondition of it.
Hermeneutics (n.) is from the Greek ‘hermeneuein’ to signify a manner of communicating a message or something otherwise inaccessible or hidden.
Hermeneutics (n.) is not to be directed at interpreting epistemological conditions (a la Dilthey), but how the authentic sense of being and the basic structures of its own being are made known to the understanding-of-being that is inherent in being-here.
Hermeneutics (n.) is the self-interpretation of facticity, tasked with rendering one’s own respective Dasein accessible to this Dasein itself in its character of being, to communicate it, and to track the self-alienation with which Dasein is afflicted.