Inheriting Gadamer: New Directions in Philosophical Hermeneutics

ISBN-13: 9780748698974 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 248 str.

Georgia Warnke

Opis

Hans-Georg Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics - one of the seminal philosophies of the 20th century - has had a profound influence on a wide array of fields, including classical philology, theology, the philosophy of the social sciences, literary theory, philosophy of law, critical social theory and the philosophy of art. This collection expands on some of these areas and takes his hermeneutics into yet new fields including narrative medicine, biotechnology, the politics of memory, the philosophy of place and the non-verbal language of the body. And, building on Gadamer's well-known discussions with Heidegger, Habermas and Derrida, Inheriting Gadamer sets him in dialogue with Mahatma Gandhi, Christine Korsgaard, Charles Mills and others. In these ways, the volume holds fast to a Gadamerian virtue: cultivating our important philosophical traditions while embracing the constant need to re-think their meaning in new circumstances and in relation to new knowledge.

Spis treści

Introduction, Georgia Warnke; Part I Critique and Causality: 1. Critical Fusions: Towards A Genuine ‘Hermeneutics of Suspicion’, Lorenzo C. Simpson; 2. What is Interpretive Explanation in Sociohistorical Analysis?, Isaac Ariail Reed; 3. The Anarchy of Hermeneutics: Interpretation as a Vital Practice, Santiago Zabala; Part II Hermeneutics and Openness: 4. Elements of Style: Openness and Dispositions, Whitney Mannies; 5. Openness to Critical Reflection: Gandhi beyond Gadamer, Steven Paul Cauchon; 6. Philosophical Hermeneutics and the Politics of Memory, Georgia Warnke; Part III Place, Play and the Body: 7. Place and Hermeneutics: Towards a Topology of Understanding, Jeff Malpas; 8. Verbal and Nonverbal Forms of Play: Words and Bodies in the Process of Understanding, Monica Vilhauer; Part IV Science, Medicine and Biotechnology: 9. On the Integration of Scientific Knowledge into Self-Understanding, Peter Fristedt; 10. A Dialogic Approach to Narrative Medicine, Leah McClimans; 11. If Enhancement is the Answer, What is the Question?, Lauren Swayne Barthold; Contributors; Index.