Kategoria BISAC: Philosophy >> Hermeneutics

This book claims that continental philosophy gives us a new understanding of digital technology, and software in particular; its main thesis being that software is like a text, so it involves a hermeneutic process. A hermeneutic understanding of software allows us to explain those aspects of software that escape a strictly technical definition, such as the relationship with the user, the human being, and the social and cultural transformations that software produces. The starting point of the book is the fracture between living experience and the code. In...

This study proposes to examine the tension in Nietzsche's works between two competing discourses, i.e., the discourse of theology and the discourse of philology. It argues that, in order to understand Nietzsche's complicated standpoint and the aim of his Kulturkritik, we have to appreciate how he operates with two different discourses, one indexed to belief, faith, liturgy (i.e., the discourse of theology) and another indexed to analytical reason, sceptical investigation, and logical argumentation, as well as historical context and linguistic precision (i.e., the discourse of...

The interpretation of texts continues to be among the principal activities of literary scholarship. This volume compiles essays from different disciplines that reflect on the interpretation of literary texts from their different theoretical orientations, methodologies, and practices, thereby sounding out how academic research can inform literary criticism.

Nietzsche's thought has been of renewed interest to philosophers in the Anglo-American philosophical community as well as to philosophers of a more phenomenological and hermeneutic background. The volume aims to appeal to both communities of scholars as it seeks to deepen the growing interest and appreciation of Nietzsche's contribution to our understanding of the mind. The 16 essays by leading Nietzsche scholars examine Nietzsche's understanding of consciousness and investigate its continuities with current developments in philosophy of mind, neuroscience, neuroethics, psychology,...

The series is devoted to monographs and anthologies on Austrian philosophy (Bolzano, Brentano, Meinong and others) as well as on phenomenology and its history in general. Moreover, the series is open to a wide variety of different approaches in the philosophy of mind.

Roman Ingardens fruhe Schriften zur Erkenntnistheorie, die hier als Band 6 der von Rolf Fieguth und Guido Kung geleiteten Gesammelten Werke vorliegen, umfassen seine Dissertation uber Intuition und Intellekt bei Henri Bergson und drei andere, zum Teil hier erstmals veroffentlichte Arbeiten aus der Fruhperiode des hervorragenden polnischen Phanomenologen. Insgesamt bieten sie ein gutes Bild von dem auch fur Ingardens Gesamtwerk sehr wichtigen und bisher nicht gebuhrend beachteten erkenntnistheoretischen Projekt, mit dem Ingarden in Anknupfung an Edmund Husserl und andere Phanomenologen,...