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Record Nr.

UNINA9910633935803321

Autore

Ruthrof Horst

Titolo

The Roots of Hermeneutics in Kant's Reflective-Teleological Judgment / / by Horst Ruthrof

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2023

ISBN

9783031186370

9783031186363

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (421 pages)

Collana

Contributions to Hermeneutics, , 2509-6095 ; ; 11

Disciplina

121.68

121.686

Soggetti

Continental philosophy

Hermeneutics

Continental Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Gadamer – Benchmark of Hermeneutics -- The Chiastic Structure of Kant’s Critical Concepts -- Kant’s Proto-Hermeneutics -- Kant’s Conception of Natural Language -- Ast, Schleiermacher, Dilthey: Hermeneutics as Inductive Reconstruction -- Husserl and Ingarden: Hermeneutic Intentionality -- Heidegger: Being and the Hermeneutics of Pro-jection -- Ricoeur: Hermeneutics as Self-Recognition -- Apel and Habermas: Emancipatory Hermeneutics -- Foucault, Derrida, Lyotard: Decentred Hermeneutics -- Vattimo, Nancy, Caputo: Hermeneutics in the Shadow of Nihilism -- Conclusion: Hermeneutics of the Absolute.

Sommario/riassunto

This book challenges the standard view that modern hermeneutics begins with Friedrich Ast and Friedrich Schleiermacher, arguing instead that it is the dialectic of reflective and teleological reason in Kant’s Critique of Judgment that provides the actual proto-hermeneutic foundation. It is revolutionary in doing so by replacing interpretive truth claims by the more appropriate claim of rendering opaque contexts intelligible. Taking Gadamer’s comprehensive analysis of hermeneutics in Truth and Method (1960) as its point of departure, the



book turns to Kant’s Critiques, reviewing his major concepts as a coherent system in relation to his sensus communis. At the heart of the book is the interaction between reflective, bottom-up search and teleological, top-down interpretative projection as provided in Part II of the third Critique. This text contends that Kant’s broad definition of nature invites the liberation of the reflective-teleological judgment from its biological exemplifications and so permits us to establish its generalised status as a path-breaking, methodological tool. Kant’s dialectic of reflective search and meaning bestowing, stipulated teleology is asserted to anticipate a series of motifs commonly associated with hermeneutics. Figures covered include Dilthey, Husserl, Ingarden, Heidegger, Gadamer, Apel, Habermas, Ricoeur, Derrida, Foucault, Lyotard, Deleuze, Vattimo, Nancy and Caputo. Their collective contributions to interpretation allow for a review of the evolution of hermeneutics from the perspective of the Kantian critique of the limitations of human cognition. The book is written for the informed, general reader, but will likewise appeal to advanced undergraduate and graduate students as well as researchers in the humanities and social sciences.