Gadamer and Ricoeur
Subtitle: critical horizons for contemporary hermeneutics
By: edited by Francis J. Mootz III and George H. Taylor
Series: Continuum studies in Continental philosophy
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 297
ISBN-13: 9781441175991
Subjects: Hermeneutik; Hermeneutics; Modern Philosophy
Description: Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur were two of the most important hermeneutical philosophers of the twentieth century. Gadamer single-handedly revived hermeneutics as a philosophical field with his many essays and his masterpiece, Truth and Method. Ricoeur famously mediated the Gadamer-Habermas debate and advanced his own hermeneutical philosophy through a number of books addressing social theory, religion, psychoanalysis and political philosophy. This book brings Gadamer and Ricoeur into a hermeneutical conversation with each other through some of their most important commentators. Twelve leading scholars deliver contemporary assessments of the history and promise of hermeneutical philosophy, providing focused discussion on the work of these two key hermeneutical thinkers. The book shows how the horizons of their thought at once support and question each other and how, in many ways, the work of these two pioneering philosophers defines the issues and agendas for the new century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-285) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Destruktion-Konstruktion / P. Christopher Smith; title: The dialectic of belonging and distanciation in Gadamer and Ricoeur / Merold Westphal; title: Hermeneutics as projecy of liberation : the concept of tradition in Paul Ricoeur and Hans-Georg Gadamer / Andreea Deciu Ritivoi; title: Gaddamer's rhetorical conception of hermeneutics as the key to developing a critical hermeneutics / Francis J. Mootz III; title: Understanding as metaphoric, not a fusion of horizons / George H. Taylor; title: Where is muthos hiding in Gadamer's hermeneutics?, or, The onltological privilege of emplotment / John Arthos; title: Paul Ricoeur's and Hans-Georg Gadamer's diverging reflections on recognition / David Vessey; title: Is phronēsis deinon? : Ricoeur on tragedy and phronēsis / David H. Fisher; title: Ricoeur's model of translation and responsible political practice / Bernard P. Dauenhauer; title: Understanding the body : the relevance of Gadamer's and Ricoeur's view of the body for feminist theory / Louise D. Derkesen, Annemie Halsema; title: Thing hermeneutics / David M. Kaplan; title: Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics and new Confucianism / Kathleen Wright.