Robin George Collingwood, rarely, if ever figures in discussion on the subject of hermeneutics. But in our view we need to look deeper. We are of the opinion that it is possible to trace a hermeneutical threading that runs throughout Collingwood's major philosophical works. He raised radical, hermeneutical and critical questions and made no mean contribution to an area of inquiry in hermeneutics.

From the nineteenth century we can distinguish two strands within hermeneutical tradition. Firstly, the tradition of hermeneutics that is characterized by its objectivism: the scientific study of human meaning can aspire to objectivity. Secondly, the tradition that is characterized by subjectivism: the denial of the objectivity of the interpretation. From the view of this second school interpretation is always context-bound interpretation.

In the article it is outlined to what strands of hermeneutics belongs Collingwood.

There is a close affinity between Heideggerian and Gadamerian "pre-understanding" and Collingwoodian `absolute presuppositions". For them, the world and its objects would be unintelligible without the presuppositions. In other worlds presuppositions are basic to interpretation. On this ground it is justified by us that Collingwood is a representative of subjective hermeneutics.