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Author:   James Risser
Publisher:   State University of New York Press
Imprint:   State University of New York Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.408kg
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9780791432587

ISBN 10:   0791432580
Pages:   278
Publication Date:   13 March 1997
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Part One The Voice of Tradition Chapter One The Philosophical Background of Philosophical Hermeneutics 1. Phenomenology as a movement beyond Neo-Kantianism 2. Kierkegaard's philosophy of existence 3. Heidegger's hermeneuties of facticity 4. Hermeneutics and historical existence Chapter Two History and the Voice of Tradition 5. Hermeneutics in the historical sciences 6. Dilthey's ambiguity 7. Historical understanding: Tradition 8. Historical understanding: The principle of Wirkungsgeschichte Chapter Three Hermeneutic Experience 9. Philosophical hermeneutics as experience 10. Experience and memory 11. Phronesis as a paradigm for hermeneutic experience 12. The primacy of practice Part Two The Voice of the Text Chapter Four Philosophical Hermeneutics and Finitude 13. The question of finitude in philosophical hermeneutics 14. An ontology of living being 15. Finitude, language and possibility Chapter Five Philosophical Hermeneutics and Truth 16. The question of truth in philosophical hermeneutics 17. The being of the beautiful 18. The imaging of truth Chapter Six The Voice of the Text A. Hermeneutics and Deconstruction-First Approach 19. Situating hermeneutics and deconstruction 20. Text and interpretation as communicative event 21. Two faces of Socrates B. Hermeneutics and Deconstruction-Second Approach 22. Hermeneutics at the edge of the breath 23. The voice in the breath 24. The drift in the voice Chapter Seven The Voice of the Poet 25. The question of poetic discourse 26. The gift of the word 27. Poetic dwelling Notes Glossary of Greek Terms Bibliography Index

Reviews

...Risser's book, with its reliable and insightful expositions, its tracing of the philosophical sources of Gadamer's thought, and its cogent replies to major critics, offers a guidebook to hermeneutics of enduring value both to novice and expert. - International Studies in Philosophy ...the volume is ... the best introduction to philosophical hermeneutics in English and should be widely used. It firmly establishes Risser as an impeccable interpreter of Gadamer's thought. - Review of Metaphysics In this text, Risser has heard Gadamer's own voice. Here is a study of Gadamer that presents him as neither a proto-pragmatist, nor a Heideggerian epigone, nor as a half-hearted 'post-modern' but as an independent thinker with a position of his own. Risser makes it admirably clear that although Gadamer has his roots in many of the same sources as those philosophers and philosophical positions with which his work is often confused, he nevertheless points to possibilities of interpretation of these sources that present challenging alternatives to the reigning orthodoxies. This is a work that anyone who wishes to avoid caricaturing Gadamer should read. - Brice Wachterhauser, St. Joseph's University At last, here is a well balanced book sympathetic to Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics that deals extensively with his later writings. It carefully elucidates and clarifies key concepts in Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics, beginning with the often neglected elements of finitude and facticity in Gadamer and their roots in Heidegger and culminating with a chapter on 'The Voice of the Poet,' again returning to an emphasis found in the later Heidegger. A particularly valuable dimension of the book is Risser's effort in each chapter to specify how his reading of Gadamer differs from those offered by various critics who have reproached hermeneutics on various grounds. - Richard E. Palmer, MacMurray College

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James Risser is Professor of Philosophy at Seattle University and is the author of Hermeneutics and the Voice of the Other: Re-reading Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics, also published by SUNY Press.

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