Unquiet understanding
Subtitle: Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics
By: Nicholas Davey.
Series: SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Albany, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 291
ISBN-13: 9780791468418; 9780791468425
Subjects: Gadamer, Hans Georg, 1900-; Hermeneutics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Philosophical hermeneutics : navigating the approaches; title: Eleven theses on philosophical hermeneutics; title: Hermeneutical understanding requires difference; title: Philosophical hermeneutics promotes a philosophy of experience; title: Philosophical hermeneutics entails a commitment to hermeneutic realism; title: Philosophical hermeneutics seeks otherness within the historical; title: Philosophical hermeneutics re-interprets transcendence; title: Philosophical hermeneutics entails an ethical disposition; title: Hermeneutic understanding redeems the negativity of its constituting differential; title: Philosophical hermeneutics affirms an ontology of the in between; title: Philosophical hermeneutics is philosophical practice rather than a philosophical method; title: Philosophical hermeneutics is a negative hermeneutics; title: Philosophical hermeneutics and the mysterium of linguistic being  : philosophical hermeneutics and bildung; title: Bildung as a transformative and formative process; title: Bildung and tradition; title: Bildung and the question of essence; title: Bildung and the in-between; title: Bildung and hermeneutical practice; title: Bildung and subject-matter ( die sache selbst); title: Sachen as a totality of meaning; title: Die sachen and negative dialectics; title: Die sachen and plato's forms; title: Sachen, cultural communities and cortesia; title: Bildung and the question of nihilism  : intimations of meaning : philosophical hermeneutics and the speculative; title: What is speculative thinking?; title: The formal elements of speculative thought; title: The defence of speculative understanding; title: The speculative and the humanistic; title: Speculative insight and the "unfounding" of experience; title: Language and the dialectic of speculative experience; title: Nietzsche, philosophical hermeneutics and the market place of language; title: Entr'acte; title: Understanding's disquiet; title: The wantonness of understanding; title: Four responses to deconstructive criticism; title: Philosophical hermeneutics and the question of alterity; title: Nihilism and the life of understanding; title: Dialogue and dialectic; title: Language, ideas and sachen; title: Keeping the word in play; title: Choice words; title: The poise of the in-between; title: The giving word; title: Language and withouteness; title: Language negation and affirmation : a resumé; title: The open and the empty; title: Understanding and the disquieting of the self; title: Dialogue and distance.