Unquiet understanding [[electronic resource] ] : Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics / / Nicholas Davey

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777505803321
• Autore: Davey Nicholas <1950->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albany, NY, : State University of New York Press, c2006
• ISBN: 0-7914-8128-X; 1-4294-1283-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (311 p.)
• Collana: SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy
• Disciplina: 121/.686092
• Soggetti: Hermeneutics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-284) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Philosophical hermeneutics : navigating the approaches -- Eleven theses on philosophical hermeneutics -- Hermeneutical understanding requires difference -- Philosophical hermeneutics promotes a philosophy of experience -- Philosophical hermeneutics entails a commitment to hermeneutic realism -- Philosophical hermeneutics seeks otherness within the historical -- Philosophical hermeneutics reinterprets transcendence -- Philosophical hermeneutics entails an ethical disposition -- Hermeneutic understanding redeems the negativity of its constituting differential -- Philosophical hermeneutics affirms an ontology of the in-between -- Philosophical hermeneutics is a philosophical practice rather than a philosophical method -- Philosophical hermeneutics is a negative hermeneutics -- Philosophical hermeneutics looks upon linguistic being as a "mysterium" -- Philosophical hermeneutics and the question of openness -- Philosophical hermeneutics and bildung -- Bildung as a transformative and formative process -- Bildung and tradition -- Bildung and the question of essence -- Bildung and the in-between -- Bildung and hermeneutical practice -- Bildung and subject-matter ( die sache selbst) -- Sachen as a totality of meaning -- Die sachen and negative dialectics -- Die sachen and plato's forms -- Sachen, cultural communities and cortesia -- "Bildung" and the question of nihilism -- Conclusion -- Intimations of meaning : philosophical hermeneutics and the defense of speculative understanding -- What is speculative ; thinking? -- The formal elements of speculative thought -- The speculative motion of hermeneutic experience -- The defence of speculative understanding -- The speculative and the humanistic -- Speculative insight and the "unfounding" of experience -- Language and the dialectic of speculative experience -- Nietzsche, philosophical hermeneutics, language, and the market place -- Entr'acte -- Understanding's disquiet -- The wantonness of understanding -- Four responses to deconstructive criticism -- Philosophical hermeneutics and the question of alterity -- Nihilism and the life of understanding -- Dialogue and dialectic -- Language, ideas and sachen -- Keeping the word in play -- Choice words -- The poise of the in-between -- The giving word -- Language and withouteness -- Language negation and affirmation : a resume -- The open and the empty -- Understanding and the disquieting of the self -- Di-alogue and di-stance.