Philosophical hermeneutics in relation dialogues with existentialism, pragmatism, critical theory, and postmodernism Paul Fairfield.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fairfield, Paul, 1966- author.

Series:

Continuum studies in Continental philosophy.

Continuum studies in Continental philosophy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hermeneutics--History.

Hermeneutics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (272 p.)

Place of Publication:

London New York Continuum 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this important new study, Paul Fairfield examines a number of issues of central importance to philosophical hermeneutics. His aim is less to reexamine the basic hypotheses of hermeneutics (Gadamer's hermeneutics in particular) than to understand it in relational terms, by bringing it into closer association with existentialism, pragmatism, critical theory, and postmodernism. Fairfield contends that there are important affinities and areas for critical exchange between hermeneutics and these four schools of thought which have, until now, remained underappreciated. Philosophical Hermeneutics Reinterpreted examines several of these connections by interpreting hermeneutics in relation to specific themes in the writings of key figures within each of these traditions. In so doing, he both clarifies some outstanding issues in hermeneutics and advances the subject beyond what Heidegger, Gadamer, and Ricoeur have given us.

Contents:

Perspectivism: Friedrich Nietzsche

Reason as boundless communication: Karl Jaspers

The thou and the mass: Gabriel Marcel

Truth after correspondence: William James

The theory of inquiry: John Dewey

Practice, theory, and anti-theory: Richard Rorty

Interpretation and criticism: Max Horkheimer

Deliberative politics: Jürgen Habermas

Discourse ethics: Karl-Otto Apel

Genealogy and suspicious interpretation: Michel Foucault

Radical hermeneutics: John Caputo

Unprincipled judgments: Jean-François Lyotard

Introduction: Hermeneutical Engagements

Part I. Existentialism

1. Perspectivism: Friedrich Nietzsche

2. Reason as Boundless

Communication: Karl Jaspers

3. The Thou and the Mass: Gabriel Marcel

Part

II. Pragmatism

4. Truth Without Foundations: William James

5. The

Theory of Inquiry: John Dewey

6. Practice, Theory, and Anti-Theory: Richard

Rorty

Part III. Critical Theory

7. Interpretation and

Criticism: Max Horkheimer

8. Deliberative Politics: Jürgen Habermas

9.

Communicative Ethics: Karl-Otto Apel

Part IV. Postmodernism

10.

Genealogy and Suspicious Interpretation: Michel Foucault

11. Radical

Hermeneutics: John Caputo

11. Unprincipled Judgments: Jean-François Lyotard

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613274281

9781472547262

1472547268

9781283274289

1283274280

9781441129628

1441129626

OCLC:

754582258