The hermeneutic nature of analytic philosophy : a study of Ernst Tugendhat / Santiago Zabala ; foreword by Gianni Vattimo ; translated by the author and Michael Haskell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zabala, Santiago, 1975-

Contributor:

Haskell, Michael.

Vattimo, Gianni, 1936-2023.

Standardized Title:

Filosofare con Ernst Tugendhat. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tugendhat, Ernst.

Analysis (Philosophy).

Hermeneutics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (220 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Columbia University Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Contemporary philosopher-analytic as well as continental—tend to feel uneasy about Ernst Tugendhat, who, though he positions himself in the analytic field, poses questions in the Heideggerian style. Tugendhat was one of Martin Heidegger's last pupils and his least obedient, pursuing a new and controversial critical technique. Tugendhat took Heidegger's destruction of Being as presence and developed it in analytic philosophy, more specifically in semantics. Only formal semantics, according to Tugendhat, could answer the questions left open by Heidegger.Yet in doing this, Tugendhat discovered the latent "hermeneutic nature of analytic philosophy"—its post-metaphysical dimension-in which "there are no facts, but only true propositions." What Tugendhat seeks to answer is this: What is the meaning of thought following the linguistic turn? Because of the rift between analytic and continental philosophers, very few studies have been written on Tugendhat, and he has been omitted altogether from several histories of philosophy. Now that these two schools have begun to reconcile, Tugendhat has become an example of a philosopher who, in the words of Richard Rorty, "built bridges between continents and between centuries."Tugendhat is known more for his philosophical turn than for his phenomenological studies or for his position within analytic philosophy, and this creates some confusion regarding his philosophical propensities. Is Tugendhat analytic or continental? Is he a follower of Wittgenstein or Heidegger? Does he belong in the culture of analysis or in that of tradition? Santiago Zabala presents Tugendhat as an example of merged horizons, promoting a philosophical historiography that is concerned more with dialogue and less with classification. In doing so, he places us squarely within a dialogic culture of the future and proves that any such labels impoverish philosophical research.

Contents:

Overcoming Husserl : the metaphysics of phenomenology

Making the nonexplicit explicit

The hermeneutic nature of analytic philosophy

There are no facts, only true propositions

Correcting Heidegger : verifying Heidegger's philosophy from within

Disclosedness beyond representation

Disclosedness beyond truth

Truth versus method

Semantizing ontology : after the metaphysics of logical positivism

Being is not a real predicate

Semantizing being

Nominalizing being

Philosophizing analytically : the semantic foundation of philosophy

The history of optical philosophy

After the fictitious world of intuition

The truthful aspect of language

Language is the consciousness of man

Epilogue : the linguistic turn as the end of metaphysics

The dissolution of ontology into formal semantics : a dialogue with Ernst Tugendhat.

Notes:

"Originally published in Italian as Filosofare con Ernst Tugendhat by Franco Angeli Editore, c2004"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [161]-190) and index.

ISBN:

0-231-51297-X

OCLC:

818856026