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Consequences of Hermeneutics: Fifty Years After Gadamer's Truth and Method
The publication of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s magnum opus Truth and Method in 1960 marked the arrival of philosophical hermeneutics as a dominant force in philosophy and the humanities as a whole. Consequences of Hermeneutics celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of one of the most important philosophical works of the twentieth century with essays by most of the leading figures in contemporary hermeneutic theory, including Gianni Vattimo and Jean Grondin.
These essays examine the achievements of hermeneutics as well as its current status and prospects for the future. Gadamer’s text provides an important focus, but the ambition of these critical reappraisals extends to hermeneutics more broadly and to a range of other thinkers, such as Heidegger, Ricoeur, Derrida, and Rorty. Forcefully demonstrating the continuing relevance and power of hermeneutics, Consequences of Hermeneutics is a fitting tribute to Gadamer and the legacy of his thought.
Table of Contents
Cover
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Consequences of Hermeneutics
Part I: Origins, Elements, and Traditions
1. Gadamer's Hidden Doctrine: The Simplicity and Humility of Philosophy
2. Truth, Method, and Transcendence
3. Gadamer's Platonism: His Recovery of Mimesis and Anamnesis
4. The Tradition of Tradition in Philosophical Hermeneutics
5. Inside and Outside Hermeneutics: Contributions Toward a Reconstructive Reason
6. The Hermeneutics of Everydayness: On the Legacy and Radicality of Heidegger's Phenomenology
7. Two Contrasting Heideggerian Elements in Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics
8. In the Nets of Tradition: A Hermeneutic Analysis Concerning the Historicity of Human Cognition
Part II: Conversation, Understanding, and Language
9. Gadamer and Rorty: From Interpretation to Conversation
10. Being Is Conversation: Remains, Weak Thought, and Hermeneutics
11. "Being Able to Love and Having to Die": Gadamer and Rilke
12. Nihilistic or Metaphysical Consequences of Hermeneutics?
13. Critique: The Heart of Philosophical Hermeneutics
14. "Thus Spoke Zarathustra," or Nietzsche and Hermeneutics in Gadamer, Lyotard, and Vattimo
15. The Condition of Hermeneutics: The Implicative Structure of Understanding
Part III: Practice, Politics, and Ethics
16. The Origin of Understanding: Event, Place, Truth
17. The Political Outcome of Hermeneutics: To Politics Through Art and Religion
18. What Is the Ethics of Interpretation?
19. Political Hermeneutics, or Why Schmitt Is Not the Enemy of Gadamer
20. Sex, Gender, and Hermeneutics
21. Being as Dialogue, or The Ethical Consequences of Interpretation
Bibliography
Index
Contributors
| ISBN | 9780810164703 |
|---|---|
| Related ISBN(s) | 9780810126862, 9780810126879 |
| MARC Record | Download |
| OCLC | 794698876 |
| Pages | 428 |
| Launched on MUSE | 2012-01-01 |
| Language | English |
| Open Access | No |
Copyright
2010
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