The book of the most prominent philosopher of our time, Paul Ricoeur, "The Conflict of Interpretations," the complete translation of which is presented in this edition, introduces the reader not only to the original interpretation of the texts of Freud, Nietzsche, Marx, Heidegger, Bultmann, but also gives an idea of ​ ​ the methodological approach inherent in phenomenological hermeneutics, the leading representative of which is Ricoeur.