 Recent research in hermeneutics has seen a rise of interest in the role played in interpretive experience by a number of normative matters. In this, some argue that the influence of Heidegger and Gadamer over contemporary hermeneutics has led to a neglect of normative considerations in current debate. To be sure, it is possible to defend Heidegger and Gadamer against the charge that their approaches leave too little room for normative considerations. When it comes to Heidegger, Steven Crowell, for example, argues that phenomenology as conceived by Husserl and Heidegger can itself be grasped as inquiry into a “normatively structured ‘space of meaning’” (Crowell 2016, 238). Crowell, in his consideration of Heidegger, focuses on Heidegger’s analysis of human existence, arguing that Heidegger’s view of the role played by care in human existence speaks to the possibility of being responsive to norms as such (Crowell 2013). When it comes to Gadamer, attempts to defend his philosophical hermeneutics against charges that it neglects normative concerns have played an important role in debate since Habermas first raised objections against Gadamer.