Philosophical hermeneutics in relation
Subtitle: dialogues with existentialism, pragmatism, critical theory, and postmodernism
By: Paul Fairfield
Publisher: Continuum
Published: 2011
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9781441116383
Subjects: Hermeneutics; History
Description: In this important new study, Paul Fairfield examines a number of issues of central importance to philosophical hermeneutics. His aim is less to reexamine the basic hypotheses of hermeneutics (Gadamer's hermeneutics in particular) than to understand it in relational terms, by bringing it into closer association with existentialism, pragmatism, critical theory, and postmodernism. Fairfield contends that there are important affinities and areas for critical exchange between hermeneutics and these four schools of thought which have, until now, remained underappreciated. Philosophical Hermeneutics Reinterpreted examines several of these connections by interpreting hermeneutics in relation to specific themes in the writings of key figures within each of these traditions. In so doing, he both clarifies some outstanding issues in hermeneutics and advances the subject beyond what Heidegger, Gadamer, and Ricoeur have given us.
Table of contents: title: Perspectivism: Friedrich Nietzsche; title: Reason as boundless communication: Karl Jaspers; title: The thou and the mass: Gabriel Marcel; title: Truth after correspondence: William James; title: The theory of inquiry: John Dewey; title: Practice, theory, and anti-theory: Richard Rorty; title: Interpretation and criticism: Max Horkheimer; title: Deliberative politics: Jürgen Habermas; title: Discourse ethics: Karl-Otto Apel; title: Genealogy and suspicious interpretation: Michel Foucault; title: Radical hermeneutics: John Caputo; title: Unprincipled judgments: Jean-François Lyotard.