Kategoria BISAC: Philosophy >> Hermeneutics

The book is the first English translation of Nicolai Hartmann's final book, published in 1953. It will be of value to graduate students in philosophy, scholars concerned with 20th century Continental philosophy, students of aesthetics and art history and criticism, and persons in and out of academic philosophy who wish to develop their aesthetic understanding and responsiveness to art and music. Aesthetics, Hartmann believes, centers on the phenomenon of beauty, and art "objectivates" beauty, but beauty exists only for a prepared observer.

Part One explores the act of aesthetic...

When the University of Halle-Wittenberg founded the Interdisciplinary Centre for Research into the European Enlightenment in 1993, it was following the destiny of its history as a centre of the Early Enlightenment in Germany which affected the whole of Europe and as one of the moving forces behind the Anthropological Turn. Research foci of the Centre have been and are Enlightenment anthropology, Enlightenment in the reference field of early modem esotericism, university history, philanthropism and the Garden Kingdom of Dessau-Worlitz; more recent emphasis has been on the Early...

Having its seeds in the 2nd International Lauener Symposium held in honour of Dagfinn Follesdal, the present collection contains a rich, kaleidoscopic ensemble of previously unpublished contributions by leading authors, representing diverse approaches to a variety of philosophical themes on which Follesdal has had a longstanding, formative impact.

Philologische Kompetenz und theologische Dynamik fuhrten im 16. Jahrhundert zu einer neuen Wahrnehmung der Bibel als Fundament der christlichen Kirche. Deshalb ruckte die Frage der Hermeneutik in den Fokus der Debatte und entwickelte sich zu einem Kapitel der Kontroverstheologie. Umstritten waren nicht nur die Uberlieferungsgestalt und Klarheit der originalsprachlichen hebraischen oder griechischen Texte im Vergleich zur lateinischen Vulgata, sondern auch die Moglichkeit, im Gegenuber zum Autoritatsanspruch der Tradition ein thematisches Zentrum der Bibel zu bestimmen und methodisch als...

Nietzsche's writings cannot be truly understood without examining their specific representational forms and complex textual stagings. In this volume, an international group of scholars consider how form and content are interrelated in Nietzsche's Beyond Good and Evil. The volume includes important new essays on stylistics, rhetoric, history of philosophy, and history of editions.

Nietzsches Denken ist in seiner Wirkung beispiellos widerspruchlich und fortgesetzt aktuell. An ihm scheiden sich bis heute die Geister. Philosophien, Kunststromungen und politische Ideologien schwankten im 20. Jahrhundert zwischen Euphorie oder Verdammung, Affirmation oder Totschweigen. Missbrauchliche Lekture hat unter faschistischem und stalinistischem Vorzeichen seine Ideen und Utopien pervertiert. Nach 1945 geben historisch-kritisch fundierte Auseinandersetzungen in Philosophie, Kunsten und Medien zunachst vorsichtig, zum Ende des Jahrhunderts verstarkt Einblicke in die Vielfaltigkeit...

This title, first published in 1991, opens with an account by Gadamer of his own life and work and their relation to the achievements of hermeneutics. Building upon the key theme of dialogue, Gadamer and Hermeneutics provides a series of essays, either linked Gadamer to other major contemporary philosophers or focusing on a given Gadamerian theme. This book will be of interest to students of literary theory.

Alexander Pfander's classical phenomenological logic, a masterwork of unmatched clarity, is presented here for the first time in English. The book unfolds the general essence of logic, its object, not acts of thinking but objective "thoughts," meanings and higher unities formed by them: the nature and kinds (1) of judgments (propositions) and their truth and truth claims, (2) of concepts, and (3) of inferences; (4) the first foundational principles of logic (the principles of identity, contradiction, excluded middle, and sufficient reason) and of valid inferences, their foundation in...