The Problem of Objectivity in Gadamer's Hermeneutics in Light of McDowell's Empiricism

Morten S. Thaning (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

VI, 212 Seiten

2016 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2015
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-37279-2 (ISBN)

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This book reassesses Gadamer's hermeneutics by bringing it into a dialogue with John McDowell's minimal empiricism. It employs the resources of McDowell's minimal empiricism to address the transcendental and ontological presuppositions for objective experience and understanding, while retaining Gadamer's emphasis on the historicity of understanding. By means of the dialogue with McDowell, the book develops a hermeneutical conception of objectivity and perceptual experience, which also entails reinterpretations of Gadamer's notions of tradition, practical wisdom and meaning. The book explores the philosophical space beyond the analytic-Continental divide and demonstrates that hermeneutics is not limited to a reflection on understanding as it is practiced in the human sciences, but can be revived as a distinct and cogent philosophical approach with a transcendental and ontological dimension.
Thaning's book is a richly detailed, well-argued and coherent presentation of a defensible, and potentially very important, philosophical position. It demonstrates an impressively deep understanding of the literature both from the phenomenological tradition and from the part of the analytical tradition, inspired by Wilfred Sellars, to which John McDowell belongs. Being a substantial philosophical achievement in its own right, the book raises far-reaching questions that will be of interest to a wide audience.

Dr. Steven Crowell, Rice University, Houston (USA)

Morten Thaning's book is an important contribution to the discourse of philosophical hermeneutics. Thaning extensively discusses a topic, which recent debates have touched upon, but which up to now has not been the subject matter of concentrated scholarly work: the relation between Gadamer's hermeneutics and McDowell's empiricism. With Thaning's interpretation Gadamer' work can be read anew as concerning the problem of hermeneutical objectivity.

Prof. Dr. Günter Figal, University of Freiburg (Germany)

Morten S. Thaning, PhD, is Associate Professor in Philosophy at the Copenhagen Business School. He has published work on Ancient Philosophy, Heidegger, Gadamer, Foucault and John McDowell. He is currently engaged in the research project "Selfunderstanding and Selfalienation – Existential Hermeneutics and Psychopathology", funded by the Velux Foundation.

Chapter 1: Introduction. Reconstructing philosophical hermeneutics.- Chapter 2: The lack of objectivity in postmodern hermeneutics.- Chapter 3: The Socratic paradigm of objectivity.- Chapter 4: Perceptual experience and the ontology of self-presentation.- Chapter 5: Historical and situated objectivity: Tradition and phron sis.- Chapter 6: Hermeneutic meaning and apophantic alienation.

Erscheinungsdatum	22.11.2016
Reihe/Serie	Contributions to Hermeneutics
Zusatzinfo	VI, 212 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	343 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Metaphysik / Ontologie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
Schlagworte	Conceptual content of perceptual experience • Critique of Brandom's distinction between de re an • Critique of Brandom’s distinction between de re and de dicto • Critique of Vattimo's conception of interpretation • Critique of Vattimo’s conception of interpretation • Gadamer and Sellars' space of reasons • Gadamer and Sellars’ space of reasons • Gadamer's notion of objectivity • Gadamer’s notion of objectivity • Heidegger on assertion • Hermeneutics and transcendental philosophy • McDowell's reading of Kant and Hegel • McDowell’s reading of Kant and Hegel • Phronesis • Tradition and prejudice • Wittgenstein on rule-following
ISBN-10	3-319-37279-3 / 3319372793
ISBN-13	978-3-319-37279-2 / 9783319372792
Zustand	Neuware