Currently, poststructuralism and hermeneutics are often lumped together as “interpretativism” that is, allegedly, partly responsible for the “post-truth era.” Against such a tendency, this chapter suggests that hermeneutics, in fact, provides a way out of central impasses of the poststructuralist paradigm without falling back on the problematic meaning-matter, subjectivity-objectivity, and realism-relativism binaries. Hermeneutics acknowledges that we are culturally, historically, and socially conditioned while at the same time theorizes the way in which we are always fundamentally interpretative agents capable of genuine dialogue, and hence it avoids the reification of social systems, the problem of relativism, and seeing all symbolic systems as inherently violent. It thereby provides a solution to three key theoretical dilemmas we were left with after poststructuralism: how to make room for agency, for a joint pursuit of truth, and for the possibility of ethical understanding of the other. The chapter discusses these three aspects, which concern respectively the ontological, epistemological, and ethical significance of hermeneutics for our current understanding of human existence in cultural webs of meaning, of the possibility of shared knowledge, and of the ways we can encounter others in a nonviolent manner.