International yearbook for hermeneutics = Internationales jahrbuch für Hermeneutik. 13, Focus : philosophy as literature = Schwerpunkt : philosophie als literatur / edited by Günter Figal ; in cooperation with Damir Barbarić [and fourteen others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Figal, Günter, editor.

Barbarić, Damir, contributor.

Series:

International Yearbook for Hermeneutics

International Yearbook for Hermeneutics, 2196-534X ; 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (282 p.)

Edition:

1. Aufl.

Place of Publication:

Tübingen, Germany : Mohr Siebeck, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The International Yearbook for Hermeneutics represents one of the prominent currents in contemporary philosophy as well as in bordering disciplines. It gathers studies on questions concerning understanding and interpretation in all relevant fields, including philosophy, theology, jurisprudence, theory of science as well as literary and cultural studies. The Yearbook includes contributions to current debates and on the history of ideas from antiquity to the present. This volume is dedicated to the topic of ""Philosophy as Literature."" Reihe International Yearbook for Hermeneutics - Band 13

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Focus: Philosophy as Literature / Schwerpunkt: Philosophie als Literatur ; Rodolphe Gasché (University of Buffalo): The Eve of Philosophy. On "Tropic" Movements and Syntactic Resistance in Derrida's White Mythology; Summary; Zusammenfassung; Günter Figal (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg): Schriftliches Denken. Über den literarischen Charakter der Philosophie; Summary; Zusammenfassung; Bernhard Zimmermann (Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg): Platons Theorietheater. Einige Gedanken zum Symposion; 1.; 2.; 3.; 4.; Summary; Zusammenfassung

10. Zur Position der Vita Plotini im Kontext der porphyrianischen Ausgabe der Enneaden11. Plotin als exemplum - Konsequenzen einer solchen Interpretation; 12. Plotin als exemplum - seine Vita ein Werk der Dichtung?; Summary; Zusammenfassung; Sanem Yazıcıoğlu (Istanbul University): The Mist of Seeing; 1. The Mist, the Light, and the Dark; 2. The Mist in the Tragicomic; 3. The Mist, the Hidden, and the Obscure; Summary; Zusammenfassung; Jennifer Mensch (The Pennsylvania State University): The Poem as Plant. Archetype and Metamorphosis in Goethe and Schlegel; 1. Goethe's Poetic Science

2. The Myth of Prometheus3. Prometheus - A Fragmentary Verse Play; 4. Schlegel's Universal Poetry; 5. Pandora - A Festival Play; 6. Writing Like a Plant; Summary; Zusammenfassung; Peter Georgsson (Gothenburg University): Filling in Nietzsche. The Hermeneutical Reversal of Plato's Indeterminacy Arguments and its Relevance for the Understanding of Philosophical Texts; 1. Introduction; 2. One of Plato's Arguments in the Republic; 3. Is Plato's Argument meant to Apply to Drama and Fiction?; 4. Gadamer's Principle of Double Aesthetic Non-Differentiation

5. Understanding as Application and the Idea of an "Expanding" Meaning6. Indeterminacy and Iser's Theory of Aesthetic Response; 7. An Analogous Principle and its Use; 8. The Reading of Philosophical Texts; 9. Conclusion; Summary; Zusammenfassung; Theodore George (Texas A&M University): The Promise of World Literature ; 1. The Call to Discover Solidarities; 2. The Promise of World Literature; a) Literature at the Limit of the Arts; b) World Literature; 3. Conclusion; Summary; Zusammenfassung

Jerome Veith (Seattle University): Waves and Horizons. Literary Response in the Space of Questionability

Notes:

Includes indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 12, 2014).

ISBN:

9783161533143

3161533143