The text presents synoptic history of philosophical hermeneutics from his oldest classical history proceed with medieval hermeneutics, hermeneutics of Protestantism, modern times, Romanticism and Historicism to 20th century hermeneutic thinking presented by Husserl, Heidegger, Gadamer, Habermas, Ricoeur, Derrida and Ingarden.

The text presents boundaries and concepts of the Middle Ages and its philosophical and theological thinking. It follows the selected characters of scholastic tradition from 5th to 13th century: Boethius, Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite, Johannes Scotus Eriugena, Anselm of Canterbury, Peter Abelard, Albertus Magnus and Thomas Aquinas.