Hegel, history, and interpretation
By: edited by Shaun Gallagher.
Contributors: Gallagher, Shaun, 1948-
Series: SUNY series in Hegelian studies
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Albany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
Subjects: Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich, 1770-1831.; Hermeneutics.
Description: Hegel, History, and Interpretation is a collection of essays that extend critical discussions of Hegel into contemporary debates about the nature of interpretation and theories of philosophical hermeneutics. Essays explore difficult issues concerning historical interpretation, the nature of hermeneutics at the end of metaphysics, the social and critical function of reason, and the inadequacy of Hegel's interpretation of the experience of otherness.

In the course of these essays Hegel is made to converse with Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, and Heidegger as well as with contemporary theorists such as Gadamer, Habermas, Foucault, and Derrida. Thus the contributors explore both the themes that form the common ground between Hegelian philosophy and contemporary interpretation theory and the mixed reception of Hegel's philosophy into contemporary discussions about history, deconstruction, critical theory, and alterity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.