Middle Voice In Gadamer's Hermeneutics
Subtitle: A Basic Interpretation With Some Theological Implications (Hermeneutische Untersuchungen Zur Theologie)
Publisher: Paul Mohr Verlag
Published: June 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 251
ISBN-13: 9783161481574
Subjects: Theology; Religion; 1900-2002; Gadamer, Hans Georg,
Description: "Philippe Eberhard proposes a medial interpretation of Hans-Georg Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics and draws theological implications concerning faith and our human condition from a Christian humanist standpoint. He brings into focus the middle voice as a way to articulate what it means to listen to language and the Word." "His thesis is twofold. First, the hermeneutic event is medial throughout. The core of the mediality of hermeneutics is the subtle balance between the event of understanding, which happens to the subject, and the subject who understands within it. Second, the mediality of understanding is the primary reason why hermeneutics is theologically meaningful. Both understanding as well as faith and theology are medial experiences leading to an always renewed understanding of what it is to be a human being in the world."--BOOK JACKET.