Understanding world, other and self beyond the anthropological paradigm : a signo-interpretational approach / Martin Pasgaard-Westerman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pasgaard-Westerman, Martin, author.

Series:

Berlin studies in knowledge research ; Volume 13.

Berlin studies in knowledge research ; Volume 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology.

Ethnology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (210 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Pasgaard-Westerman rethinks the ontological and epistemological understanding of world, other and self by opposing the general anthropological paradigm within contemporary philosophy. Signs and interpretations are not functions of Man; instead Man is conceived as certain "signo-interpretational" relations to world, other and self. Opposing more traditional hermeneutical approaches the signo-interpretational relations towards world, other and self are understood as a "skeptical disposition". This skeptical disposition undercuts usual epistemological problems of skepticism and instead designates the permanent incompleteness of the process of interpretation and formulates an ethical imperative. This ethical imperative aims at an active dissolution of fixed signs; an openness towards other signs; and the holding back of definite interpretations. The book discusses how world appear as a sign-world, how the other appear within interpretational patterns, and how our signs of self are experienced. Discussing a wide range of epistemological and ontological questions and taking into account the perspectives of a broad range of philosophical traditions, a signo-interpretational account of reality, world-versions, other persons and self is presented.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Acknowledgements

Contents

Introduction

1. Interpretation - Man - Skepticism

2. Philosophy of Signs and Interpretations

3. Self-Referentiality as Signo-Interpretational Process

Part I. "Who Interprets?" Agent, Process and the Ending of the Semiosis

4. Man as Meta-Interpreting Being - Lenk's Methodological Interpretationism

5. Man as Individual Understanding - Simon's Philosophy of the Sign

6. Man as Signo-Interpretational Process - Abel's Philosophy of Sign and Interpretation

7. Signo-Interpretational Processes: Genealogy, Creativity, Critique

Part II. Man as Signo-interpretational Being - The Skeptical Disposition towards World, Other, and Self

8. The Skeptical Disposition

9. Interpretations of World

10. Interpretations of Others

11. Interpretations of Self

Literature

Subject index

Index of names

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9783110591132

3110591138

9783110592078

311059207X

OCLC:

1055049934