Hermeneutics as Politics / Deborah Hertz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hertz, Deborah, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hermeneutics.

Political science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, [2003]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Hermeneutics as Politics, perhaps the most important critique of post-modern thought ever written, is here reissued in a special fifteenth anniversary edition. In a new foreword, Robert B. Pippin argues that the book has rightfully achieved the status of a classic. Rosen illuminates the underpinnings of post-modernist thought, providing valuable insight as he pursues two arguments: first, that post-modernism, which regards itself as an attack upon the Enlightenment, is in fact merely a continuation of Enlightenment thought; and second, that the extraordinary contemporary emphasis upon hermeneutics is the latest consequence of the triumph of history over mathematics and science."Perhaps the most original and philosophically important critical account of hermeneutics-of its philosophical status and historical development-to appear since Gadamer's Truth and Method."-Choice "A philosophical polemic of the highest order written in a language of unfailing verve and precision. . . . It will repay manyfold the labour of a slow and considered reading."-J. M. Coetzee, Upstream

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Introduction

1. Transcendental Ambiguity: The Rhetoric of the Enlightenment

2. Platonic Reconstruction

3. Hermeneutics as Politics

4. Theory and Interpretation

5. Conversation or Tragedy

Notes

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780300148398

0300148399

OCLC:

1024031740