Table of Contents

1. Cover
2. Title Page
3. Notes on Contributors
4. Introduction
   1. References
5. Part I: Hermeneutics and the History of Philosophy
   1. 1 The History of Hermeneutics
      1. Heidegger’s Destruction of the Six Senses of “History”
      2. Heidegger’s History of the Concept of Hermeneutics
      3. Gadamer’s History of the Problem of Hermeneutics
      4. Ricoeur’s Story of Deregionalization and Radicalization
      5. Conclusion
      6. References
   2. 2 Hermeneutics and the Ancient Philosophical Legacy
      1. The Ancient Roots of Philological and Theological Hermeneutics
      2. Language as Hermēneia and the “Logocentric” Theory of Meaning
      3. Aristotelian Phronēsis as a Model for Philosophical Hermeneutics
      4. References
   3. 3 Medieval Hermeneutics
      1. Augustine
      2. Origen
      3. The Twelfth Century
      4. St. Thomas Aquinas
      5. References
      6. Further Reading
   4. 4 Hermeneutics and Modern Philosophy
      1. Meaning and Theory
      2. Meaning and Art
      3. The Limits of Semantics
      4. Aesthetics and Meaning
      5. Hermeneutics, Philosophy, and Meaning
      6. References
   5. 5 Gadamer and German Idealism
      1. Kant’s Critique of Judgment
      2. Hegel’s Speculative Idealism
      3. References
6. Part II: Themes and Topics
   1. 6 Hermeneutics and Ethical Life
   2. 7 Hermeneutics and Politics
      1. References
   3. 8 Religion
      1. Religious/Theological Origins of Hermeneutics
      2. General and Biblical Hermeneutics
      3. Historicism and Biblical Hermeneutics
      4. Hermeneutics of Belief/Hermeneutics of Suspicion
      5. Phenomenology of the Sacred and the Hermeneutics of the “Word”
      6. References
   4. 9 Method
      1. Friedrich D. E. Schleiermacher
      2. Wilhelm Dilthey
      3. Martin Heidegger
      4. Hans-Georg Gadamer
      5. Paul Ricœur
      6. Gianni Vattimo and Richard Rorty
      7. Recent Developments in Hermeneutics
      8. References
   5. 10 Truth
      1. Truth within the Framework of Historicity
      2. Truth, Objectivity, and Ideology
      3. Truth as Disclosure and the Challenge of Living Truthfully
      4. Concluding Reflections
      5. References
   6. 11 Historicity and Temporality
      1. Radicalizing Hermeneutics
      2. Being and Time
      3. The Later Heidegger
      4. Philosophical Hermeneutics: Gadamer and Ricoeur
      5. Phenomenology of the Trace
      6. Conclusion
      7. References
   7. 12 Memory
      1. References
      2. Further Reading
   8. 13 Language and Alterity
      1. References
      2. Further Reading
   9. 14 Identity, History, Tradition
      1. Wilhelm Dilthey
      2. Martin Heidegger
      3. Hans-Georg Gadamer
      4. Paul Ricoeur
      5. Conclusion: A Hermeneutic View of Personal Identity
   10. 15 Recognition and Freedom
       1. Heidegger
       2. Sartre and Merleau-Ponty
       3. Ricœur
       4. Gadamer
       5. Taylor
       6. References
       7. Further Reading
   11. 16 Aesthetics and Perception
       1. References
       2. Further Reading
   12. 17 Hermeneutics and Ontology
       1. The Hermeneutic Turn of Philosophy and the Ontological Turn of Hermeneutics
       2. The Ontological Turn of Hermeneutics and the Hermeneutic Turn of Ontology in Heidegger's Early Path of Thinking: The Formation of a Hermeneutically Reshaped Phenomenology as Ontology
       3. Acknowledgment
       4. References
   13. 18 Narrative
       1. Why Narrative?
       2. Defining Narrative
       3. Narrative, Explanation, and Understanding
       4. Narrative and Reality
       5. Denouement
       6. References
   14. 19 Rationality, Knowledge, and Relativism
       1. References
   15. 20 Finitude
       1. Finitude as the Bounds of Reason
       2. Finitude as the Facticity of Dasein
       3. Finitude as the Infinity of Experience
       4. Finitude as the Event of Dialogue
       5. References
       6. Further Reading
   16. 21 Authority
       1. Introduction: The Vanishing and the Rehabilitation of Authority
       2. The Latin Origin of the Concept of Authority and Weber's Treatment
       3. Gadamer's Rehabilitation of Authority
       4. The Relation of Authority to Prejudice and Tradition
       5. Authority and the Author
       6. References
   17. 22 Subjectivity and Hermeneutics
       1. Descartes, Kant, and the Modern Revolution
       2. Beyond Subjectivity: Heidegger, Marx, and Foucault
       3. Conclusion
       4. References
   18. 23 Biblical Hermeneutics
       1. Premodern Biblical Hermeneutics
       2. Modern and Postmodern Biblical Hermeneutics
       3. References
       4. Further Reading
7. Part III: Key Concepts
   1. 24 Understanding
      1. References
   2. 25 Interpretation, Judgment, and Critique
      1. An Orientational Critique of Judgment
      2. Explanative and Interpretive Judgments
      3. References
      4. Further Reading
   3. 26 Word, Image, and Concept
      1. Gadamer’s Account of the Speculative Dimension of Words
      2. References
   4. 27 Horizonality
      1. References
      2. Further Reading
   5. 28 Application and Praxis
      1. References
   6. 29 Dialectic
      1. Plato and the Task of Becoming More Dialectical
      2. Language and the Speculative Dimension of Dialectic
      3. References
   7. 30 Play
      1. Introduction
      2. Play, Historicity, and Universality
      3. Conclusion
      4. References
   8. 31 Sense and Meaning
      1. Sense, Meaning, Intelligibility
      2. Aristotle’s De interpretatione 1–4
      3. From Aristotle to Heidegger
   9. 32 Prejudice and Pre-Understanding
      1. Conceptual History [Begriffsgeschichte] as Gadamer’s “Method”
      2. Heidegger’s Fore-Structure and Gadamer’s Elaboration on it in His Theory of Prejudice
      3. Enlightenment’s Prejudice against Prejudice Itself and Prejudices as Necessary Conditions for the Understanding of Finite Beings
      4. Acknowledgment
      5. References
   10. 33 On the Manifold Senses of Mimesis
       1. I
       2. II
       3. III
       4. IV
       5. V
       6. References
   11. 34 The Hermeneutical Circle
       1. References
   12. 35 Metaphor and Symbol
       1. References
   13. 36 Dialogue, Goodwill, and Community
       1. References
   14. 37 Textuality
       1. References
   15. 38 Lived Experience
       1. Erlebnisse and Lebenswelt
       2. Erlebnisse: Circular versus Recursive
       3. Erfahrungen as Hermeneutic Encounters
       4. The Wisdom of Lived (Hermeneutic) Experience
       5. References
8. Part IV: Major Figures
   1. 39 Martin Luther
      1. Luther’s Theological Framework
      2. Luther’s Biblical Hermeneutics
      3. References
   2. 40 August Boeckh
      1. Introduction
      2. Biography
      3. Boeckh’s Contribution to Hermeneutics
      4. Conclusion
      5. References
   3. 41 Immanuel Kant
      1. Religious Interpretation
      2. Interpreting Nature
      3. Reflective Interpretation
      4. References
      5. Further Reading
   4. 42 G. W. F. Hegel
      1. Experience and Interpretation
      2. Identity and Social Self-Interpretation
      3. Beyond Method: Contradiction
      4. Conclusion
   5. 43 F. D. E. Schleiermacher
      1. Intellectual and Cultural Context
      2. Schleiermacher’s Hermeneutics
      3. References
   6. 44 Friedrich Nietzsche
      1. References
   7. 45 Wilhelm Dilthey
      1. References
      2. Further Readings
   8. 46 Edmund Husserl
      1. The Correlation between Consciousness and Object
      2. Hermeneutic Elements in Phenomenology
      3. References
   9. 47 Martin Heidegger
      1. The Hermeneutic Concept of World
      2. The Priority of Understanding over Perception
      3. The Fore-Structure of Understanding
      4. Cognition as a Mode of Interpretation
      5. References
      6. Further Reading
   10. 48 Hans-Georg Gadamer
       1. Vita
       2. The Philosophical Hermeneutics of Truth and Method
       3. Debates
       4. References
       5. Bibliography
       6. On Gadamer
   11. 49 Mircea Eliade
       1. The Symbol as a Dimension of Consciousness
       2. The Method for Establishing the Symbol as a Valid Form
       3. Conclusion
       4. References
   12. 50 Paul Ricoeur
       1. Ricoeur’s Path to Hermeneutics
       2. Ricoeur’s Mature Conception of Hermeneutics
       3. Ricoeur’s Place in the Hermeneutic Tradition
       4. References
   13. 51 E. D. Hirsch
       1. Biography
       2. Contribution to Hermeneutics
       3. References
   14. 52 Michel Foucault
       1. Introduction
       2. Archaeology
       3. Genealogy
       4. The Problem of Power
       5. Conclusion
       6. References
   15. 53 Gianni Vattimo
       1. References
       2. Books by Vattimo in English Translation
       3. Other Reading
   16. 54 Karl-Otto Apel
       1. References
   17. 55 Jürgen Habermas
       1. References
       2. Further Reading
   18. 56 Richard Rorty
       1. Rorty’s Entanglements with Hermeneutics
       2. Is Rorty a Hermeneutical Philosopher?
       3. References
   19. 57 Günter Figal
       1. The Hermeneutical Epochē
       2. Objectivity
       3. Aesthetics
       4. References
9. Part V: Philosophical Intersections and Encounters
   1. 58 Hermeneutics and Phenomenology
      1. Phenomenology as Possibility and Its Role as “Guide” and “Path” for Hermeneutics
      2. Phenomenology Is a “Hermeneutic” in Three Senses of This Word
      3. “Grafting” Phenomenology onto Hermeneutics
      4. Phenomenology and Hermeneutics: A Relationship of “Mutual Belonging”
      5. References
   2. 59 Hermeneutics and Deconstruction
      1. References
   3. 60 Hermeneutics, Politics, and Philosophy
      1. Universality and Redemption
      2. Disorientation and the Philosophical and Political Project of Gadamer’s Hermeneutics
      3. Conversation and Agreement
      4. Tradition and Politics
      5. Politics and Power
      6. Conclusion
      7. References
   4. 61 Hermeneutic Philosophy of Science
      1. References
   5. 62 Hermeneutics and Pragmatism
      1. Hermeneutics and Classical Pragmatism
      2. Neo-Pragmatism and Hermeneutics
      3. References
   6. 63 Hermeneutics and Education
      1. References
   7. 64 Hermeneutics and Critical Theory
      1. Adorno: From Idealism’s Principle of Identity to Negative Dialectics
      2. Gadamer: From Dialectics to Dialogue
      3. Dialectics between Dialogue and Critique
      4. References
   8. 65 Hermeneutics and Theology
      1. Christological Hermeneutics
      2. Trinitarian Hermeneutics
      3. The Eucharist’s Endless Hermeneutics
      4. Conclusion: Witnesses and Testaments
      5. References
   9. 66 Hermeneutics and Rhetoric
      1. The Ancient Context
      2. Rhetoric and Audience
      3. The Legal Context
      4. Maimonides versus Spinoza and Biblical Hermeneutics
      5. Last Words
      6. References
   10. 67 Hermeneutics
       1. References
   11. 68 Hermeneutics and Feminist Philosophy
       1. Applications in Philosophy
       2. Feminist Modifications and Subversions
       3. Contributions by Female Authors
       4. “Tradition” as a Performative
       5. Conceptual Opposition and the Tradition
       6. References
       7. Further Reading
   12. 69 Hermeneutics and the Analytic–Continental Divide
       1. Two Heterogeneous Fields
       2. Origins: Frege and Husserl
       3. Historical Origins of the Antagonism
       4. Make It Explicit!
       5. References
   13. 70 Hermeneutics and Humanism
       1. Gadamer: “The Significance of the Humanist Tradition for the Human Sciences”
       2. A Short Hermeneutic Scrutiny of the Concept of Humanism: Hermeneutics from a Humanistic and Humanism from a Hermeneutic Perspective
       3. Acknowledgment
       4. References
   14. 71 Hermeneutics and Law
       1. A Hermeneutical Phenomenology of Legal Practice
       2. Hermeneutical Themes
       3. Conclusion
       4. References
10. Index
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