GADAMER AND HERMENEUTICS Edited, with an Introduction, by Hugh J. Silverman |
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| With the publication of Hans-Georg Gadamer's Truth and Method in 1960, hermeneutics took a new turn -- extending its range to aesthetic, cultural, historical, literary, and borad philosophical questions. This volume looks at developments in Gadamerian hermeneutics in the thirty years since the publications of the philosopher's magnum opus. | |
| This fourth volume of the Continental Philosophy series opens with and account by Gadamer of his own life and work and their relation to the achievements of hermeneutics. Building upon the key theme of dialogue, Gadamer and Hermeneutics provides a series of dialogical essays, pairs of essays either linking Gadamer to other major contemporary philosophers or focusing on a given Gadamerian theme. Each pair takes up a topic so as to shed special light on the hermeneutic process. Central to this volume are debates about the virtues of Gadamerian hermeneutics in contrast to aspects of the work of Heidegger, Ricoeur, Barthes, Derrida, and Habermas. The volume concludes with three dialogues around the major Gadamerian questions of metaphor, science, and the text. | |
| The volume also contains a thorough
bibliography of Gadamer's writings in English (with a listing of corresponding books
published in German) and a full bibliography of writings in English on Gadamer and
hermeneutics. |
Table of Contents
Introduction
Hugh J. Silverman
I. GADAMER/ GADAMER
Hans-Georg Gadamer
1. GADAMER ON GADAMER
II. PLATO/HEIDEGGER/GADAMER
P. Christopher Smith
2. PLATO AS IMPULSE AND OBSTACLE
IN GADAMER'S DEVELOPMENT OF
A HERMENEUTICAL THEORY
Nicholas Davey
3. A RESPONSE TO CHRISTOPHER SMITH
III. RICOEUR/GADAMER
Gary E. Aylesworth
4. DIALOGUE, TEXT, NARRATIVE:
CONFRONTING GADAMER AND RICOEUR
Leonard Lawlor
5. THE DIALECTICAL UNITY OF HERMENEUTICS:
ON RICOEUR AND GADAMER
IV. BARTHES/GADAMER
James Risser
6. READING THE TEXT
Deborah Cook
7. REREADING GADAMER:
A RESPONSE TO JAMES RISSER
V. DERRIDA/GADAMER
Gary B. Madison
8. BEYOND SERIOUSNESS AND FRIVOLITY:
A GADAMERIAN RESPONSE TO DECONSTRUCTION
Wayne J. Froman
9. L'ECRITURE AND PHILOSOPHICAL HERMENEUTICS
VI. HABERMAS/GADAMER
Graeme Nicholson
10. ANSWERS TO CRITICAL THEORY
Dieter Misgeld
11. MODERNITY AND HERMENEUTICS:
A CRITICAL-THEORETICAL REJOINDER
VII. METAPHORICAL HERMENEUTICS
Joel Weinsheimer
12. GADAMER'S METAPHORICAL HERMENEUTICS
Robin Schott
13. WHOSE HOME IS IT ANYWAY?:
A FEMINIST RESPONSE TO GADAMER'S HERMENEUTICS
VIII. SCIENCE AND HERMENEUTICS
Patrick A. Heelan
14. HERMENEUTICAL PHENOMENOLOGY AND
THE PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
Joseph J. Kockelmans
15. BEYOND REALISM AND IDEALISM:
A RESPONSE TO PATRICK HEELAN
IX. HERMENEUTICS AND THE TEXT
Vincent Descombes
16. THE INTERPRETATIVE TEXT
Hugh J. Silverman
17. INTERPRETING THE INTERPRETATIVE TEXT
Notes
Bibliography
Contributors
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