Davey Unquiet Understanding

Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8128-8
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 302 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy

Argues that Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics merits a radical reappraisal.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Davey, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Phänomenologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgments

1. Philosophical Hermeneutics:Navigating the Approaches
Introduction

Eleven Theses on Philosophical Hermeneutics Thesis One:Hermeneutical Understanding Requires Difference
Thesis Two:Philosophical Hermeneutics Promotes Philosophy of Experience
Thesis Three:Philosophical Hermeneutics Entails an Commitment to Hermeneutic Realism
Thesis Four:Philosophical Hermeneutics Seeks Otherness within the Historical
Thesis Five:Philosophical Hermeneutics Reinterprets Transcendence
Thesis Six:Philosophical Hermeneutics Entails Ethical Disposition
Thesis Seven:Hermeneutic Understanding Redeems the Negativity of Its Constituting Differential
Thesis Eight:Philosophical Hermeneutics Affirms an Ontology of the In-between
Thesis Nine:Philosophical Hermeneutics Is Philosophical Practice Rather Than a Philosophical Method
Thesis Ten:Philosophical Hermeneutics Is a Negative Hermeneutics
Thesis Eleven:Philosophical Hermeneutics Looks upon Linguistic Being as a “Mysterium”
Conclusion:Philosophical Hermeneutics and the Question of Openness 2. Philosophical Hermeneutics and Bildung Introduction Bildung as a Transformative and Formative Process
Bildung and Tradition
Bildung and the Question of Essence
Bildung and the In-between
Bildung and Hermeneutical Practice
Bildung and Subject Matter (Die Sache selbst) Sachen as a Totality of Meaning
Die Sachen and Negative Dialectics
Die Sachen and Plato’s Forms
Sachen, Cultural Communities, and Cortesia
“Bildung” and the Question of Nihilism
Conclusion 3. Intimations of Meaning:Philosophical Hermeneutics and the Defense of Speculative Understanding What Is Speculative Thinking? The Formal Elements of Speculative Thought
The Speculative Motion of Hermeneutic Experience The Defense of Speculative Understanding The Speculative and the Humenistic
Speculative Insight and the “Unfounding” of Experience
Language and the Dialectic of Speculative Experience Nietzsche, Philosophical Hermeneutics, Language, and the Market Place.
Entr’acte 4. Understanding’s Disquiet The Wantonness of Understanding
Four Responses to Deconstructive Criticism
Philosophical Hermeneutics and the Question of Alterity
Nihilism and the Life of Understanding
Dialogue and Dialectic
Language, Ideas, and Sachen
Keeping the Word in Play
Choice Words
The Poise of the In-between
The Giving Word
Language and Withouteness
Language Negation and Affirmation:A Resumé
The Open and the Empty
Understanding and the Disquieting of the Self
Di-alogue and Di-stance Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Nicholas Davey is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dundee, Scotland.