The late twentieth century seems marked by a deep intellectual discomfort about the ways in which Western thought generally has framed its ways of understanding the World. One symptom of this dis-ease revolves around the current philosophical debates which see either a dramatic end to, or a winding down from "modernity.' Are we "postmodern'? "a-modern'? or, were we, as Bruno Latour claims, never modern to begin with?¹ In this contribution to the closing of the first "Hermeneutics and Science" meeting, I shall be using this context to re-interpret both hermeneutics and science.