Overview

Hermeneutics between History and Philosophy collects together Gadamer's remaining important untranslated writings on the problem of history and the major philosophical traditions of the 20th century from the standpoint of hermeneutics. In these writings, Gadamer examines important thinkers as Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Bourdieu and Habermas and their ongoing legacies. This volume also includes a preface by the editors, who are also the translators, presenting the structure of the volume, a substantial introductionsituating Gadamer's particular project and examining the place of hermeneutics vis-a-vis the disciplines of history and philosophy in the 20th century. The translation is followed by a glossary of German terms and Greek and Latin expressions, as well as a bibliography of all the works cited and alluded to by Gadamer.

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Author:   Hans-Georg Gadamer ,  Professor Pol Vandevelde (Marquette University, USA) ,  Dr Arun Iyer (Seattle University, USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.600kg
ISBN:  

9781350091405

ISBN 10:   1350091405
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   27 December 2018
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Part I: Introduction: Hermeneutics Between History and Philosophy Pol Vandevelde and Arun Iyer Introduction by translators I. History as a Problem: On Being Historically Affected 1. Is There a Causality in History? 2. Historicity and Truth 3. The History of the Universe and the Historicity of the Human Beings 4. A World Without History? 5. The Old and the New 6. Death as a Question II. The Impetus for Thinking Hermeneutically: On the Task of Dilthey 7. The Problem of Dilthey: Between Romanticism and Positivism 8. Dilthey and Ortega: The Philosophy of Life 9. Hermeneutics and the Diltheyan School III. Confronting Other Intellectual Movements and Disciplines 10. Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity, Subject and Person 11. On the Contemporary Relevance of Husserl’s Phenomenology 12. “Being and Nothingness” (Jean-Paul Sartre) 13. Heidegger and Sociology (Bourdieu and Habermas) 14. Hermeneutics On the Trail IV Hermeneutics of Beginnings and Returns: The Case of Heidegger 15. Remembering Heidegger’s Beginnings 16. The Turn in the Path 17. On the Beginning of Thought 18. On the Way Back to the Beginning Index

Reviews

This project is commendable, and although Gadamer develops many of the themes of this volume in books and essays already available in English, it constitutes an important contribution to our understanding of Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics, and more broadly, the overall nature, context, and development of German philosophy in the twentieth-century. This volume should therefore be of interest to readers of Gadamer, continental philosophy more generally, and indeed anyone concerned with the relation between philosophy and its history. [...] The material on Bourdieu, Habermas, and Derrida is particularly illuminating as it presents Gadamer's responses to contemporaries, each of whom, in their own way, represent direct challenges to Gadamer's phenomenological, linguistic, and hermeneutical positions. [...] This reader found especially helpful the editors' account of how Gadamer's philosophy of history relates to his philosophy of language. * Phenomenological Reviews *

Author Information

Hans-Georg Gadamer was born on 11 February 1900 and died on 13 March 2002. He was the author, most notably, of Truth and Method, and, more recently, of The Beginning of Philosophy and The Beginning of Knowledge. Pol Vandevelde is Professor of Philosophy at Marquette University, USA. His previous publications include Être et Discours: La Question du Langage dans L'itinéraire de Heidegger (1927-1938) (1994) The Task of the Interpreter: Text, Meaning, and Negotiation (2005) and Heidegger and the Romantics: the Literary Invention of Meaning (2012). Arun Iyer is an instructor in Philosophy at Seattle University, USA. He is the author of Towards an Epistemology of Ruptures: The Case of Heidegger and Foucault (2014).

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