Hermeneutics and Truth

ISBN-13: 9780810111189 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 255 str.

Brice C. Wachterhauser

Opis

The claim that all human thought involves "interpretation," that all human thought is in some way relative to a contingent context of cognitive, theoretical, practical, and aesthetic considerations, has become widely accepted, but waht we understand by "truth" and how we should best pursue it are questions raised with renewed force once a hermeneutical starting point has beenembraced. Brice R. Wachterhauser's collection "Hermeneutics and Truth "is an attempt to contribute to this concersation.
No thinkers have wrestled with theissue of truthand interpretation in more illuminating ways for the Continental tradition of philosophy than Heidegger andGadamer. "Hermeneutics and Truth "is a dual focus on Heidegger and Gadamer, but it concentrates primarily on Gadamer's efforts to think through the issue of truth for hermeneutics and only secondaily on Heidegger's thought on thisissue."