The Hermeneutics of Original Argument

Demonstration, Dialectic, Rhetoric
Erscheinungsjahr 1998
ISBN: 978-0-8101-1607-8
Verlag: Northwestern University Press

Buch, Englisch, 364 Seiten, Hardback, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy

What, precisely, does the word hermeneutics mean? And in what sense can one speak of the hermeneutics of original argument? In The Hermeneutics of Original Argument, P. Christopher Smith explores these questions in building upon Heidegger's hermeneutical thought. In applying Heidegger's basic notion that hermeneutics is not a doctrine of interpretation but is its actual execution, Christopher Smith penetrates the abstractions that conceal original argument and explores the structure and nature of argument as it originally occurs.

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations
1. Introduction: The Hermeneutics of Original Argument
2. Heidegger and the Recovery of Aristotle's Rhetoric
3. A Hermeneutics of Original Argument Based on Aristotle's Rhetoric
4. Demonstration, Dialectic, and Rhetoric in Plato
5. Traces of Original Argument in Aristotle's Logical Theory: A Destruktion of the Posterior Analytics and Topics
6. Embodied Argument as Patho/logical: The Original Fusion of Pathos and Logos
7. Conclusion: Nietzsche's Recovery of Original Acoustical Experience: The Birth of Argument Out of the Spirit of Music
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Index

Über Autor(innen)

Smith is professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.