Van de Ven, I. & Chateau, L. (2024). Digital Culture and the Hermeneutic Tradition: Suspicion, trust, and dialogue. New York: Editorial Routledge.

This review examines Digital Culture and the Hermeneutic Tradition: Suspicion, Trust, and Dialogue (Routledge, 2024) by Inge van de Ven and Lucie Chateau, a work that proposes a renewal of hermeneutics as a form of critical rationality capable of confronting the epistemic and symbolic challenges of the algorithmic era. Structured around four axes — digital hermeneutics, suspicious hermeneutics, hermeneutics of faith, and dialogical hermeneutics — the book develops a "scaled digital hermeneutics" that combines distant reading, close reading, and platform analysis to interpret meaning-production in algorithmically governed digital cultures. The review highlights the work's most significant contributions: the productive tension between Ricoeur's hermeneutics of suspicion and his hermeneutics of faith as complementary interpretive stances; the application of Gadamer's dialogical hermeneutics to digital deliberation spaces such as Reddit; and the integration of Miranda Fricker's concept of hermeneutic injustice into the analysis of platform design. At the same time, the review identifies key limitations: the insufficient engagement with the material and socio-economic conditions of algorithmic technoculture, the ambivalent treatment of radical suspicion as an emancipatory tool, and the political timidity of the proposals for platform intervention. The review concludes by situating the work within broader debates on hybrid ontologies of the digital subject and the philosophical stakes of epistemic justice in the digital public sphere.