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Book Synopsis Gadamer and Practical Philosophy by : Matthew Robert Foster
Download or read book Gadamer and Practical Philosophy written by Matthew Robert Foster and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Matthew Foster develops a hermeneutical philosophy of practice, based on a critical reading of Hans-Georg Gadamer's works on ethics, his debates with Leo Strauss, and his commentaries on contemporary moral issues. Foster argues that Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics can help clarify thenature of moral reason and support the establishment of specific moral norms. He demonstrates how Gadamer's hermeneutical principles can be extended to address the problems of moral relativism and ideology indigenous to the modern era.
Book Synopsis Praise of Theory by : Hans-Georg Gadamer
Download or read book Praise of Theory written by Hans-Georg Gadamer and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of speeches and essays clarifies Gadamer's thoughts on the power of language, the social role and influence of science, and the idea of reason. He argues that the theoretical pursuit of truth is valuable for its own sake, and devalued when pursued explicitly for practical purposes.
Book Synopsis Gadamer in Conversation by : Hans-Georg Gadamer
Download or read book Gadamer in Conversation written by Hans-Georg Gadamer and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents six lively conversations with Hans-Georg Gadamer (born 1900), one of the twentieth century's master philosophers. Looking back over his life and thought, Gadamer takes up key issues in his philosophy, addresses points of controversy, and replies to his critics, including those who accuse him of having been in complicity with the Nazis. A genial and direct conversationalist, Gadamer is here captured at his best and most accessible. The interviews took place between 1989 and 1996, and all but one appear in English for the first time in this volume. The first three conversations, conducted by Heidelberg philosopher Carsten Dutt, deal with hermeneutics, aesthetics, and practical philosophy and the question of ethics. In a fourth conversation, with University of Heidelberg classics professor Glenn W. Most, Gadamer argues for the vital importance of the Greeks for our contemporary thinking. In the next, the philosopher reaffirms his connection with phenomenology and clarifies his relation to Husserl and Heidegger in a conversation with London philosopher Alfons Grieder. In the final interview, with German Nazi expert Dorte von Westernhagen, Gadamer describes his life
Book Synopsis The Gadamer Reader by : Hans-Georg Gadamer
Download or read book The Gadamer Reader written by Hans-Georg Gadamer and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2007-11-21 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume begins with an autobiographical sketch and culminates in a conversation with Jean Grondin that looks back over a lifetime of productive philosophical work.
Book Synopsis Philosophical Hermeneutics by : Hans-Georg Gadamer
Download or read book Philosophical Hermeneutics written by Hans-Georg Gadamer and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'This volume presents carefully selected essays from Gadamer's Kleine Schriften. The seven essays comprising Part 1 contain Gadamer's discussion of hermeneutical reflection. Part 2 consists of six essays dealing with phenomenology, existential philosophy, and philosophical hermeneutics.
Book Synopsis Gadamer’s Hermeneutics by : Robert J. Dostal
Download or read book Gadamer’s Hermeneutics written by Robert J. Dostal and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-15 with total page 447 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Gadamer’s Hermeneutics Robert J. Dostal provides a comprehensive and critical account of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s hermeneutical philosophy, arguing that Gadamer’s enterprise is rooted in the thesis that “being that can be understood is language.” He defends Gadamer against charges of linguistic idealism and emphasizes language’s relationship to understanding, though he criticizes Gadamer for too often ignoring the role of the prelinguistic in our experience. Dostal goes on to explain the concept of the "inner word" for Gadamer’s account of language. The book situates Gadamer’s hermeneutics in three important ways: in relation to the contestability of the legacy of the Enlightenment project; in relation to the work of his mentor, Martin Heidegger; and in relation to Gadamer’s reading of Plato and Aristotle. Dostal explores both Gadamer’s claim on the Enlightenment and his ambivalence toward it. He considers Gadamer’s dependence on Heidegger’s accomplishment while pointing out the ways in which Gadamer charted his own course, rejecting his teacher’s reading of Plato and his antihumanism. Dostal points out notable differences in the philosophers’ politics as well. Finally, Dostal mediates between Gadamer’s hermeneutics and what might be called philological hermeneutics. His analysis defends the civic humanism that is the culmination of the philosopher’s hermeneutics, a humanism defined by moral education, common sense, judgment, and taste. Supporters and critics of Gadamer’s philosophy will learn much from this major achievement.
Book Synopsis Gadamer's Ethics of Play by : Monica Vilhauer
Download or read book Gadamer's Ethics of Play written by Monica Vilhauer and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2010-09-25 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gadamer's Ethics of Play examines the ethical dimensions of understanding by focusing on the concept of dialogical 'play' in Hans-Georg Gadamer's Truth and Method. The book is accessible to an undergraduate audience, while also being relevant to ongoing debates among Gadamer scholars.
Book Synopsis Hermeneutics and the Voice of the Other by : James Risser
Download or read book Hermeneutics and the Voice of the Other written by James Risser and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1997-03-06 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dealing extensively with Gadamer's later writings, Hermeneutics and the Voice of the Other shows neglected and widely misunderstood dimensions of Gadamer's hermeneutics: historicity, finitude, truth, the importance of the other, and the eminence of the poetic text.
Download or read book Gadamer written by Georgia Warnke and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-05-29 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hans-Georg Gadamer is one of the leading philosophers in the worldtoday. His philosophical hermeneutics has had a major impact in awide range of disciplines, including the social sciences, literarycriticism, theology and jurisprudence. Truth and Method, his majorwork, is widely recognised to be one of the great classics oftwentieth-century thought. In this book Georgia Warnke provides a clear and systematicexposition of Gadamer's work, as well as a balanced and thoughtfulassessment of his views. Warnke gives particular attention to theways in which Gadamer's work has been taken up and criticised byliterary critics, social theorists and philosophers, such asHirsch, Habermas and Rorty. She thus provides an introduction toGadamer which demonstrates the relevance of his work to currentdebates in a variety of disciplines. This book will be invaluable to students and specialists throughoutthe humanities and social sciences, as well as to anyone who isinterested in the most important developments in contemporarythought.
Book Synopsis The Democratic Theory of Hans-Georg Gadamer by : Darren Walhof
Download or read book The Democratic Theory of Hans-Georg Gadamer written by Darren Walhof and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the distinctive contribution that the writings of Hans-Georg Gadamer make to democratic theory. Walhof argues that Gadamer’s hermeneutical philosophy enlarges our perspective by shifting our view away from individual citizens to what exists between citizens, thereby allowing us to envision political realities that are otherwise hard to see. These realities include the disclosure of truth in democratic politics; achieving common ground in democratic dialogue, even amidst significant disagreement and diversity; the public and political nature of the religious traditions that make claims on and shape citizens; and the solidarities that connect us to each other and enable democratic action. The author argues that bringing these dimensions to awareness enriches our theories of democracy and is particularly crucial in an era of hyper-partisanship, accelerating inequality, and social conflicts involving racial, sexual, and religious identities.
Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Gadamer by : Robert J. Dostal
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Gadamer written by Robert J. Dostal and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-01-21 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hans-Georg Gadamer (b. 1900) is widely recognized as the leading exponent of philosophical hermeneutics. The essays in this collection examine Gadamer's biography, the core of hermeneutical theory, and the significance of his work for ethics, aesthetics, the social sciences, and theology. There is full consideration of Gadamer's appropriation of Hegel, Heidegger and the Greeks, as well as his relation to modernity, critical theory and poststructuralism.
Book Synopsis Gadamer's Dialectical Hermeneutics by : Lauren Swayne Barthold
Download or read book Gadamer's Dialectical Hermeneutics written by Lauren Swayne Barthold and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2010 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gadamer's Dialectical Hermeneutics contributes to the growing literature that takes seriously the significance of Plato for Gadamer's hermeneutics. What distinguishes this book is the way in which Lauren Swayne Barthold argues for a dialectic central to Gadamer's hermeneutics, one that recalls the Platonic chorismos, or separation, between the transcendent and sensory realms. Barthold demonstrates that Gadamer, too, insisted on the "in-between" nature of human understanding as characterized by Hermes: we are finite beings always striving for infinity--that which lies beyond being. Such a dialectical reading brings clarity to several themes crucial to, and contested within, Gadamer's hermeneutics. First, we are helped to see that Gadamer affirms the roles of both theory and practice for hermeneutics. Second, we are able to appreciate the nature of truth as the event of understanding--that into which we enter as opposed to that which stands apart from us as a criterion. Third, we gain insight into the significance of dialogue for understanding, including the necessary role of the other. And finally, we are able to substantiate the meaning of the good-beyond-being, as a key component to understanding. Gadamer's Dialectical Hermeneutics presents a reading of Gadamer that avoids the labels of realism or essentialism, and shows his primary motivation is to uncover the ethical, indeed dialectically ethical, and practical nature of philosophy.
Book Synopsis Reason in the Age of Science by : Hans-Georg Gadamer
Download or read book Reason in the Age of Science written by Hans-Georg Gadamer and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essays in this book deal broadly with the question of what form reasoning about life and society can take in a culture permeated by scientific and technical modes of thought. They attempt to identify certain very basic types of questions that seem to escape scientific resolution and call for, in Gadamer's view, philosophical reflection of a hermeneutic sort.In effect, Gadamer argues for the continued practical relevance of Socratic-Platonic modes of thought in respect to contemporary issues. As part of this argument, he advances his own views on the interplay of science, technology, and social policy.These essays, which are not available in any existing translation or collection of Gadamer's work, are remarkably up-to-date with respect to the present state of his thinking, and they address issues that are particularly critical to social theory and philosophy.Perhaps more than anyone else, Hans-Georg Gadamer, who is Professor Emeritus at the University of Heidelberg and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Boston College, is the doyen of German Philosophy. His previously translated works have been widely and enthusiastically received in this country. He is recognized as the chief theorist of hermeneutics, a strong and growing movement here in a number of disciplines, from theology and literary criticism to philosophy and social theory.A book in the series Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought.
Book Synopsis Ethics, Aesthetics and the Historical Dimension of Language by : Hans-Georg Gadamer
Download or read book Ethics, Aesthetics and the Historical Dimension of Language written by Hans-Georg Gadamer and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-10 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ethics, Aesthetics and the Historical Dimension of Language collects together Gadamer's most important untranslated writings on ethics, aesthetics and language. With a substantial introduction by the editors exploring Gadamer's ethical project and providing an overview of his aesthetic work, this book collects Gadamer's writings on ancient ethics, including the moral philosophy of Aristotle, and on practical philosophy (first section). In the second section, Gadamer's writings on art are collected, including his examination of poetry, opera and painting among other art forms. The third section comprises Gadamer's essays on language in its historical dimension. This important collection is a useful resource for scholars in philosophy, studying hermeneutics, continental, 20th-century and German philosophy.
Book Synopsis Gadamer: A Guide for the Perplexed by : Chris Lawn
Download or read book Gadamer: A Guide for the Perplexed written by Chris Lawn and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2006-06-23 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing an account of Gadamer's hermeneutics, this book includes an exposition and analysis of such key terms as 'fusion of horizons', 'effective historical consciousness' and 'the logic of question and answer', as well as Gadamer's redefinition of such concepts as 'prejudice', 'authority' and 'tradition'.
Book Synopsis Gadamer and the Question of the Divine by : Walter Lammi
Download or read book Gadamer and the Question of the Divine written by Walter Lammi and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important monograph exploring a neglected aspect of Gadamer's thought - his life-long concern with the question of the divine.
Book Synopsis The Problem of Objectivity in Gadamer's Hermeneutics in Light of McDowell's Empiricism by : Morten S. Thaning
Download or read book The Problem of Objectivity in Gadamer's Hermeneutics in Light of McDowell's Empiricism written by Morten S. Thaning and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-21 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book reassesses Gadamer’s hermeneutics by bringing it into a dialogue with John McDowell’s minimal empiricism. It employs the resources of McDowell’s minimal empiricism to address the transcendental and ontological presuppositions for objective experience and understanding, while retaining Gadamer’s emphasis on the historicity of understanding. By means of the dialogue with McDowell, the book develops a hermeneutical conception of objectivity and perceptual experience, which also entails reinterpretations of Gadamer’s notions of tradition, practical wisdom and meaning. The book explores the philosophical space beyond the analytic-Continental divide and demonstrates that hermeneutics is not limited to a reflection on understanding as it is practiced in the human sciences, but can be revived as a distinct and cogent philosophical approach with a transcendental and ontological dimension. Thaning's book is a richly detailed, well-argued and coherent presentation of a defensible, and potentially very important, philosophical position. It demonstrates an impressively deep understanding of the literature both from the phenomenological tradition and from the part of the analytical tradition, inspired by Wilfred Sellars, to which John McDowell belongs. Being a substantial philosophical achievement in its own right, the book raises far-reaching questions that will be of interest to a wide audience. Dr. Steven Crowell, Rice University, Houston (USA) Morten Thaning’s book is an important contribution to the discourse of philosophical hermeneutics. Thaning extensively discusses a topic, which recent debates have touched upon, but which up to now has not been the subject matter of concentrated scholarly work: the relation between Gadamer’s hermeneutics and McDowell’s empiricism. With Thaning’s interpretation Gadamer’ work can be read anew as concerning the problem of hermeneutical objectivity. Prof. Dr. Günter Figal, University of Freiburg (Germany)
