Hermeneutics and Truth

Erscheinungsjahr 1994
ISBN: 978-0-8101-1143-1
Verlag: Northwestern University Press

Buch, Englisch, 255 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy

The claim that all human thought involves ""interpretation,"" that all human thought is in some way relative to a contingent context of cognitive, theoretical, practical, and aesthetic considerations, has become widely accepted, but waht we understand by ""truth"" and how we should best pursue it are questions raised with renewed force once a hermeneutical starting point has been embraced.  Brice R. Wachterhauser's collection Hermeneutics and Truth is an attempt to contribute to this concersation.  

No thinkers have wrestled with the issue of truth and interpretation in more illuminating ways for the Continental tradition of philosophy than Heidegger and Gadamer. Hermeneutics and Truth is a dual focus on Heidegger and Gadamer, but it concentrates primarily on Gadamer's efforts to think through the issue of truth for hermeneutics and only secondaily on Heidegger's thought on this issue.

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Is There Truth after Interpretation?

1. Truth in the Human Sciences
Hans-Georg Gadamer

2. What is Truth?
Hans-Georg Gadamer

3. The Experience of Truth for Gadamer and Heidegger: Taking Time and Sudden Lightning
Robert J. Daniel

4. On the Ground of Understanding
Rüdinger Bubner

5. Heidegger's Idea of Truth
Ernst Tugendhat

6. Emanation, Incarnation, and the Truth-Event in Gadamer's Truth and Method
David Carpenter

7. The Remembrance of Truth: The Truth of Remembrance
James Risser

8. Gadamer to Augustine: On the Origin of the Hermeneutical Claim to Universality
Jean Grondin

9. Gadamer's Realism: The "Belongingness" of Word and Reality
Brice R. Wachterhauser

10. Understanding Truth and Objectivity: A Dialogue between Donald Davidson and Hans-Georg Gadamer
Karsten R. Stueber

11. World-Picture and Conscience
Josef Simon

12. Hermeneutics, Tradition, and the Standpoint of Women
Georgia Warnke

Notes on Contributors
Notes

Über Autor(innen)

Brice R. Wachterhauser is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Saint Joseph's University, Philadelphia, and the editor of Hermeneutics and Modern Philosophy.