Inheriting Gadamer : new directions in philosophical hermeneutics / edited by Georgia Warnke.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Warnke, Georgia, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hermeneutics.

Physical Description:

vi, 242 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2016]

Summary:

"Hans-Georg Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics, one of the seminal philosophies of the twentieth century, has had a profound influence on a wide array of fields, including classical philology, theology, the philosophy of the social sciences, literary theory, philosophy of law, critical social theory and the philosophy of art. This collection expands on some of these areas and takes his hermeneutics into yet new fields including narrative medicine, biotechnology, the politics of memory, the philosophy of place and the non-verbal languages of the body. And while Gadamer's discussions with Heidegger, Habermas and Derrida are well known, Inheriting Gadamer sets him in dialogue with Mahatma Gandhi, Christine Korsgaard, Charles Mills and others. In these ways, the volume holds fast to a Gadamerian virtue: cultivating our important philosophical traditions while embracing the constant need to re-think their meaning in new circumstances and in relation to new knowledge"--Back cover.

Contents:

Introduction / Georgia Warnke

Part I: Critique and causality. Critical fusions: toward a genuine 'hermeneutics of suspicion' / Lorenzo C. Simpson

What is interpretive explanation in sociohistorical analysis / Isaac Ariail Reed

The anarchy of hermeneutics: interpretation as a vital practice / Santiago Zabala

Part II: Hermeneutics and openness. Elements of style: openness and dispositions / Whitney Mannies

Openness to critical reflection: Gandhi beyond Gadamer / Steven Paul Cauchon

Philosophical hermenutics and the politics of memory / Georgia Warnke

Part III: Place, play and the body. Place and hermeneutics: towards a topology of understanding / Jeff Malpas

Verbal and nonverbal forms of play: words and bodies in the process of understanding / Monica Vilhauer

Part IV: Science, medicine and biotechnology. On the integration of scientific knowledge into self-understanding / Peter Fristedt

A diaologic approach to narrative medicine / Leah McClimans

If enhancement is the answer, what is the question? / Lauren Swayne Barthold.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780748698974

0748698973

OCLC:

921867288