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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790373803321

Autore

Risser James <1946->

Titolo

The life of understanding [[electronic resource] ] : a contemporary hermeneutics / / James Risser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, c2012

ISBN

1-280-69653-2

9786613673497

0-253-00219-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (154 p.)

Collana

Studies in Continental thought

Disciplina

121/.686

Soggetti

Hermeneutics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Platonic gestures -- Memory and life: hermeneutics as convalescence -- Distressed memory: hermeneutics and the venture of the foreign -- Beyond distress: toward a community of memory -- Fabric of life: dialectics, discourse, and the art of weaving -- Severed threads: the incapacity of language -- Reading beyond the letter: on memory and writing -- Flash of beauty.

Sommario/riassunto

In Gadamer's hermeneutics, interpretation is inseparable from the broader concern of making one's way in life. In this book, James Risser builds on this insight about the juxtaposition of human living and the act of understanding by tracing hermeneutics back to the basic experience of philosophy as defined by Plato. For Risser, Plato provides resources for new directions in hermeneutics and new possibilities for ""the life of understanding"" and ""the understanding of life."" Risser places Gadamer in dialogue with Plato, with the issue of memory as a conceptual focus. He develops themes per