Warnke Gadamer

Hermeneutics, Tradition and Reason
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-0-7456-7832-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 218 Seiten, E-Book

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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, hismajor work, 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 specialiststhroughout the humanities and social sciences, as well as to anyonewho is interested in the most important developments incontemporary thought.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Warnke, Georgia

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. HERMENEUTICS AND HISTORY: Critique of Romantic Hermeneutics; ThePhenomenological Turn.
2. HERMENEUTICS AND AUTHORIAL INTENTIONL: Hirsch'sIntentionalism; The Structure of Game-Playing; Mimesis;Understanding as Participation.
3. HERMENEU TICS AND THE PROBLEM OF SUBJECTIVISM: TheRehabilitation of Prejudice and Tradition; The Anticipation ofCompleteness; Understanding and Application; The Dialogic Structureof Understanding.
4. HERMENEUT ICS AND THE CRITIQUE OF IDEOLOGY: Habermas's Reviewof Truth and Method; Apel's Critique of Hermeneutics; Habermas'sSecond Response to Gadamer; Unconstrained Communication; Gadamer'sConservatism.
5. HERMENEUT ICS AND THE `NEW PRAGMATISM': Rorty's New Unity ofScience; Rorty's Critique of Epistemology; Rorty's Irrationalism;`Bildung' and Practical Reason.
6. CONCLUSION.
Notes.