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Record Nr.

UNINA9910820063003321

Autore

Fairfield Paul <1966->

Titolo

Philosophical hermeneutics in relation : dialogues with existentialism, pragmatism, critical theory, and postmodernism / Paul Fairfield

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; New York, : Continuum, 2011

ISBN

1-4725-4726-8

1-283-27428-0

9786613274281

1-4411-2962-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (272 p.)

Collana

Continuum studies in Continental philosophy

Disciplina

121/.686

Soggetti

Hermeneutics - History

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

Perspectivism: Friedrich Nietzsche -- Reason as boundless communication: Karl Jaspers -- The thou and the mass: Gabriel Marcel -- Truth after correspondence: William James -- The theory of inquiry: John Dewey -- Practice, theory, and anti-theory: Richard Rorty -- Interpretation and criticism: Max Horkheimer -- Deliberative politics: Jürgen Habermas -- Discourse ethics: Karl-Otto Apel -- Genealogy and suspicious interpretation: Michel Foucault -- Radical hermeneutics: John Caputo -- Unprincipled judgments: Jean-François Lyotard

Introduction: Hermeneutical Engagements -- Part I. Existentialism -- 1. Perspectivism: Friedrich Nietzsche -- 2. Reason as Boundless -- Communication: Karl Jaspers -- 3. The Thou and the Mass: Gabriel Marcel -- Part -- II. Pragmatism -- 4. Truth Without Foundations: William James -- 5. The -- Theory of Inquiry: John Dewey -- 6. Practice, Theory, and Anti-Theory: Richard -- Rorty -- Part III. Critical Theory -- 7. Interpretation and -- Criticism: Max Horkheimer -- 8. Deliberative Politics: Jürgen Habermas -- 9. -- Communicative Ethics: Karl-Otto Apel -- Part IV. Postmodernism -- 10. -- Genealogy and Suspicious Interpretation: Michel Foucault -- 11. Radical -- Hermeneutics: John Caputo -- 11. Unprincipled Judgments: Jean-François Lyotard -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index



Sommario/riassunto

In this important new study, Paul Fairfield examines a number of issues of central importance to philosophical hermeneutics. His aim is less to reexamine the basic hypotheses of hermeneutics (Gadamer's hermeneutics in particular) than to understand it in relational terms, by bringing it into closer association with existentialism, pragmatism, critical theory, and postmodernism. Fairfield contends that there are important affinities and areas for critical exchange between hermeneutics and these four schools of thought which have, until now, remained underappreciated. Philosophical Hermeneutics Reinterpreted examines several of these connections by interpreting hermeneutics in relation to specific themes in the writings of key figures within each of these traditions. In so doing, he both clarifies some outstanding issues in hermeneutics and advances the subject beyond what Heidegger, Gadamer, and Ricoeur have given us.