In the current era of “post-truth politics,” there is widespread nostalgia for a time allegedly still pervaded by a shared commitment to truth, objectivity, and factuality. This chapter argues, however, that instead of an opposition between truth and narrative or a turn away from narratives to factuality, we need more nuanced understanding of the relationship between narrative and truth and of how our understanding of the world is inevitably interpretative and narratively mediated. It discusses the political relevance of narrative hermeneutics by suggesting that rather than affirm the dichotomy between subjectivity and objectivity, or relativism and objectivism, we should work toward more nuanced hermeneutic awareness: awareness of the interpretative processes and resources through which we make sense of the world. Since we cannot escape narrative, we should, rather, become more skilled in analyzing and evaluating different narrative practices as interpretative practices. Hence, we need hermeneutic awareness informed by more complex conceptual tools to distinguish between ethico-politically productive and dangerous narrative practices. Such awareness is integral to our narrative agency, which is an important aspect of political agency. The latter part of the chapter discusses how collective narratives seep into personal experience and how hermeneutic awareness can help critical engagement with them. It explores these issues in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic and the author’s own experience of illness – involving what she calls existential diminishment. An experience of profound uncertainty is crucial to our times, she argues, and narrative hermeneutics can provide valuable resources to confront this fundamental aspect of our condition that is particularly salient in the current moment.