Schleiermacher’s hermeneutics are best known through their transmission via Hans-Georg Gadamer, whose monumental Truth and Method (Gadamer 2003), first published in 1960, sought to construct a hermeneutic theory grounded in interpretation as an activity. In contrast to Schleiermacher’s focus on authorial intent, for Gadamer meaning and its interpretation are more accurately constructed by the context and traditions (see tradition ) in which specific texts can be located. However, the mobility of hermeneutic interpretation is reflected in Andrew Bowie’s claim that ‘the account of Schleiermacher given by Gadamer in Truth and Method needs radical revision’ (Bowie 1993, 146).