Gadamer : hermeneutics, tradition, and reason /
The essays address the following questions: How and under what conditions has our culture come to represent the individual? What characterizes individualistic ideology and the social, economic, and political systems within which it has emerged? What is the role of the individual within them? What ha...
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Stanford, Calif. :
Stanford University Press,
1987.
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| Series: | Key contemporary thinkers.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Hermeneutics and history:
- Critique of romantic hermeneutics
- Schleiermacher's hermeneutics
- The hermeneutic account of history
- Hermeneutics and the Geisteswissenschaften
- The phenomenological turn
- 2. Hermeneutics and authorial intention:
- Hirsch's intentionalism
- The structure of game-playing
- Mimesis
- Understanding as participation
- 3. Hermeneutics and the problem of subjectivism:
- The rehabilitation of prejudice and tradition
- The anticipation of completeness
- Understanding and application
- The dialogic structure of understanding
- 4. Hermeneutics and the critique of ideology:
- Habermas's review of Truth and method
- Apel's critique of hermeneutics
- Habermas's second response to Gadamer
- Unconstrained communication
- Gadamer's conservatism
- 5. Hermeneutics and the "new pragmatism":
- Rorty's new unity of science
- Rorty's critique of epistemology
- Rorty's irrationalism
- Buildung and practical reason
- 6. Conclusion:
- The dialogue character of understanding
- Hermeneutic experience
- Bildung.