 There is, according to Gadamer, a continuity between a hermeneutics ‘that is aware of its philosophic implications’ and ‘the great tradition of practical philosophy’ (Gadamer, 2007, p.245), and such a claim would already seem to be implicit in the idea that interpretation and application are tied together through the embeddedness of interpretation in the hermeneutical situation. Gadamer has himself engaged, however, in direct reflection on a range of concrete contemporary issues (see Gadamer 1976a, 1989a, 1993b, 1998b, 1999, 2001, see also Krajewski 2003). Gadamer’s discussion of these issues draws directly upon his more theoretical discussions of hermeneutics elsewhere, sometimes serving to provide further elaboration and illumination of the ideas at work in those discussions. A central concern in many of Gadamer’s essays is the role of Europe, and European culture, in the contemporary world—something that was especially pressing for Gadamer with the advent of German reunification and the expansion of the European community (see especially Gadamer 1989a). Here, however, a number of other closely connected issues also come into view: the nature and role of modern science and technology (see especially 1976a, 1998b), and together with this, the role of the humanities; the question of education and, in particular, of humanistic education (1992); the issue of understanding between cultures, and especially between religions, and the issue of world literature (see especially George 2020).  In addition, Gadamer has written on matters concerning law, ethics, the changing character of the modern university, the connection between philosophy and politics, and the nature of medical practice and the concept of health (see especially Gadamer 1993b, see also see Aho 2022).