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Index

Cover Title Page Table of Contents Notes on Contributors Introduction

References

Part I: Hermeneutics and the History of Philosophy

1 The History of Hermeneutics

Heidegger’s Destruction of the Six Senses of “History” Heidegger’s History of the Concept of Hermeneutics Gadamer’s History of the Problem of Hermeneutics Ricoeur’s Story of Deregionalization and Radicalization Conclusion References

2 Hermeneutics and the Ancient Philosophical Legacy

The Ancient Roots of Philological and Theological Hermeneutics Language as Hermēneia and the “Logocentric” Theory of Meaning Aristotelian Phronēsis as a Model for Philosophical Hermeneutics References

3 Medieval Hermeneutics

Augustine Origen The Twelfth Century St. Thomas Aquinas References Further Reading

4 Hermeneutics and Modern Philosophy

Meaning and Theory Meaning and Art The Limits of Semantics Aesthetics and Meaning Hermeneutics, Philosophy, and Meaning References

5 Gadamer and German Idealism

Kant’s Critique of Judgment Hegel’s Speculative Idealism References

Part II: Themes and Topics

6 Hermeneutics and Ethical Life 7 Hermeneutics and Politics

References

8 Religion

Religious/Theological Origins of Hermeneutics General and Biblical Hermeneutics Historicism and Biblical Hermeneutics Hermeneutics of Belief/Hermeneutics of Suspicion Phenomenology of the Sacred and the Hermeneutics of the “Word” References

9 Method

Friedrich D. E. Schleiermacher Wilhelm Dilthey Martin Heidegger Hans-Georg Gadamer Paul Ricœur Gianni Vattimo and Richard Rorty Recent Developments in Hermeneutics References

10 Truth

Truth within the Framework of Historicity Truth, Objectivity, and Ideology Truth as Disclosure and the Challenge of Living Truthfully Concluding Reflections References

11 Historicity and Temporality

Radicalizing Hermeneutics Being and Time The Later Heidegger Philosophical Hermeneutics: Gadamer and Ricoeur Phenomenology of the Trace Conclusion References

12 Memory

References Further Reading

13 Language and Alterity

References Further Reading

14 Identity, History, Tradition

Wilhelm Dilthey Martin Heidegger Hans-Georg Gadamer Paul Ricoeur Conclusion: A Hermeneutic View of Personal Identity

15 Recognition and Freedom

Heidegger Sartre and Merleau-Ponty Ricœur Gadamer Taylor References Further Reading

16 Aesthetics and Perception

References Further Reading

17 Hermeneutics and Ontology

The Hermeneutic Turn of Philosophy and the Ontological Turn of Hermeneutics 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 Acknowledgment References

18 Narrative

Why Narrative? Defining Narrative Narrative, Explanation, and Understanding Narrative and Reality Denouement References

19 Rationality, Knowledge, and Relativism

References

20 Finitude

Finitude as the Bounds of Reason Finitude as the Facticity of Dasein Finitude as the Infinity of Experience Finitude as the Event of Dialogue References Further Reading

21 Authority

Introduction: The Vanishing and the Rehabilitation of Authority The Latin Origin of the Concept of Authority and Weber's Treatment Gadamer's Rehabilitation of Authority The Relation of Authority to Prejudice and Tradition Authority and the Author References

22 Subjectivity and Hermeneutics

Descartes, Kant, and the Modern Revolution Beyond Subjectivity: Heidegger, Marx, and Foucault Conclusion References

23 Biblical Hermeneutics

Premodern Biblical Hermeneutics Modern and Postmodern Biblical Hermeneutics References Further Reading

Part III: Key Concepts

24 Understanding

References

25 Interpretation, Judgment, and Critique

An Orientational Critique of Judgment Explanative and Interpretive Judgments References Further Reading

26 Word, Image, and Concept

Gadamer’s Account of the Speculative Dimension of Words References

27 Horizonality

References Further Reading

28 Application and Praxis

References

29 Dialectic

Plato and the Task of Becoming More Dialectical Language and the Speculative Dimension of Dialectic References

30 Play

Introduction Play, Historicity, and Universality Conclusion References

31 Sense and Meaning

Sense, Meaning, Intelligibility Aristotle’s De interpretatione 1–4 From Aristotle to Heidegger

32 Prejudice and Pre-Understanding

Conceptual History [Begriffsgeschichte] as Gadamer’s “Method” Heidegger’s Fore-Structure and Gadamer’s Elaboration on it in His Theory of Prejudice Enlightenment’s Prejudice against Prejudice Itself and Prejudices as Necessary Conditions for the Understanding of Finite Beings Acknowledgment References

33 On the Manifold Senses of Mimesis

I II III IV V References

34 The Hermeneutical Circle

References

35 Metaphor and Symbol

References

36 Dialogue, Goodwill, and Community

References

37 Textuality

References

38 Lived Experience

Erlebnisse and Lebenswelt Erlebnisse: Circular versus Recursive Erfahrungen as Hermeneutic Encounters The Wisdom of Lived (Hermeneutic) Experience References

Part IV: Major Figures

39 Martin Luther

Luther’s Theological Framework Luther’s Biblical Hermeneutics References

40 August Boeckh

Introduction Biography Boeckh’s Contribution to Hermeneutics Conclusion References

41 Immanuel Kant

Religious Interpretation Interpreting Nature Reflective Interpretation References Further Reading

42 G. W. F. Hegel

Experience and Interpretation Identity and Social Self-Interpretation Beyond Method: Contradiction Conclusion

43 F. D. E. Schleiermacher

Intellectual and Cultural Context Schleiermacher’s Hermeneutics References

44 Friedrich Nietzsche

References

45 Wilhelm Dilthey

References Further Readings

46 Edmund Husserl

The Correlation between Consciousness and Object Hermeneutic Elements in Phenomenology References

47 Martin Heidegger

The Hermeneutic Concept of World The Priority of Understanding over Perception The Fore-Structure of Understanding Cognition as a Mode of Interpretation References Further Reading

48 Hans-Georg Gadamer

Vita The Philosophical Hermeneutics of Truth and Method Debates References Bibliography On Gadamer

49 Mircea Eliade

The Symbol as a Dimension of Consciousness The Method for Establishing the Symbol as a Valid Form Conclusion References

50 Paul Ricoeur

Ricoeur’s Path to Hermeneutics Ricoeur’s Mature Conception of Hermeneutics Ricoeur’s Place in the Hermeneutic Tradition References

51 E. D. Hirsch

Biography Contribution to Hermeneutics References

52 Michel Foucault

Introduction Archaeology Genealogy The Problem of Power Conclusion References

53 Gianni Vattimo

References Books by Vattimo in English Translation Other Reading

54 Karl-Otto Apel

References

55 Jürgen Habermas

References Further Reading

56 Richard Rorty

Rorty’s Entanglements with Hermeneutics Is Rorty a Hermeneutical Philosopher? References

57 Günter Figal

The Hermeneutical Epochē Objectivity Aesthetics References

Part V: Philosophical Intersections and Encounters

58 Hermeneutics and Phenomenology

Phenomenology as Possibility and Its Role as “Guide” and “Path” for Hermeneutics Phenomenology Is a “Hermeneutic” in Three Senses of This Word “Grafting” Phenomenology onto Hermeneutics Phenomenology and Hermeneutics: A Relationship of “Mutual Belonging” References

59 Hermeneutics and Deconstruction

References

60 Hermeneutics, Politics, and Philosophy

Universality and Redemption Disorientation and the Philosophical and Political Project of Gadamer’s Hermeneutics Conversation and Agreement Tradition and Politics Politics and Power Conclusion References

61 Hermeneutic Philosophy of Science

References

62 Hermeneutics and Pragmatism

Hermeneutics and Classical Pragmatism Neo-Pragmatism and Hermeneutics References

63 Hermeneutics and Education

References

64 Hermeneutics and Critical Theory

Adorno: From Idealism’s Principle of Identity to Negative Dialectics Gadamer: From Dialectics to Dialogue Dialectics between Dialogue and Critique References

65 Hermeneutics and Theology

Christological Hermeneutics Trinitarian Hermeneutics The Eucharist’s Endless Hermeneutics Conclusion: Witnesses and Testaments References

66 Hermeneutics and Rhetoric

The Ancient Context Rhetoric and Audience The Legal Context Maimonides versus Spinoza and Biblical Hermeneutics Last Words References

67 Hermeneutics

References

68 Hermeneutics and Feminist Philosophy

Applications in Philosophy Feminist Modifications and Subversions Contributions by Female Authors “Tradition” as a Performative Conceptual Opposition and the Tradition References Further Reading

69 Hermeneutics and the Analytic–Continental Divide

Two Heterogeneous Fields Origins: Frege and Husserl Historical Origins of the Antagonism Make It Explicit! References

70 Hermeneutics and Humanism

Gadamer: “The Significance of the Humanist Tradition for the Human Sciences” A Short Hermeneutic Scrutiny of the Concept of Humanism: Hermeneutics from a Humanistic and Humanism from a Hermeneutic Perspective Acknowledgment References

71 Hermeneutics and Law

A Hermeneutical Phenomenology of Legal Practice Hermeneutical Themes Conclusion References

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