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Unquiet understanding : Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics / Nicholas Davey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davey, Nicholas, 1950-
- Series:
- SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy.
- SUNY series in contemporary continental philosophy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hermeneutics.
- Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 1900-2002.
- Gadamer, Hans-Georg.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (311 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, c2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Argues that Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics merits a radical reappraisal.
- Contents:
- Philosophical hermeneutics : navigating the approaches
- Eleven theses on philosophical hermeneutics
- Hermeneutical understanding requires difference
- Philosophical hermeneutics promotes a philosophy of experience
- Philosophical hermeneutics entails a commitment to hermeneutic realism
- Philosophical hermeneutics seeks otherness within the historical
- Philosophical hermeneutics reinterprets transcendence
- Philosophical hermeneutics entails an ethical disposition
- Hermeneutic understanding redeems the negativity of its constituting differential
- Philosophical hermeneutics affirms an ontology of the in-between
- Philosophical hermeneutics is a philosophical practice rather than a philosophical method
- Philosophical hermeneutics is a negative hermeneutics
- Philosophical hermeneutics looks upon linguistic being as a "mysterium"
- Philosophical hermeneutics and the question of openness
- Philosophical hermeneutics and bildung
- Bildung as a transformative and formative process
- Bildung and tradition
- Bildung and the question of essence
- Bildung and the in-between
- Bildung and hermeneutical practice
- Bildung and subject-matter ( die sache selbst)
- Sachen as a totality of meaning
- Die sachen and negative dialectics
- Die sachen and plato's forms
- Sachen, cultural communities and cortesia
- "Bildung" and the question of nihilism
- Conclusion
- Intimations of meaning : philosophical hermeneutics and the defense of speculative understanding
- What is speculative thinking?
- The formal elements of speculative thought
- The speculative motion of hermeneutic experience
- The defence of speculative understanding
- The speculative and the humanistic
- Speculative insight and the "unfounding" of experience
- Language and the dialectic of speculative experience
- Nietzsche, philosophical hermeneutics, language, and the market place
- Entr'acte
- Understanding's disquiet
- The wantonness of understanding
- Four responses to deconstructive criticism
- Philosophical hermeneutics and the question of alterity
- Nihilism and the life of understanding
- Dialogue and dialectic
- Language, ideas and sachen
- Keeping the word in play
- Choice words
- The poise of the in-between
- The giving word
- Language and withouteness
- Language negation and affirmation : a resume
- The open and the empty
- Understanding and the disquieting of the self
- Di-alogue and di-stance.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-284) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780791481288
- 079148128X
- 9781429412834
- 1429412836
- OCLC:
- 74908296
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