Inheriting Gadamer

New Directions in Philosophical Hermeneutics

Buch | Hardcover

248 Seiten

2016
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-0-7486-9897-4 (ISBN)

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This collection expands Hans-Georg Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics into yet new fields including narrative medicine, biotechnology, the politics of memory, the philosophy of place and the non-verbal language of the body, and sets Gadamer in new dialogues with Mahatma Gandhi, Christine Korsgaard, Charles Mills and others.

Hans-Georg Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics – one of the seminal philosophies of the 20th century – has had a profound influence on a wide array of fields, including classical philology, theology, the philosophy of the social sciences, literary theory, philosophy of law, critical social theory and the philosophy of art. This collection expands on some of these areas and takes his hermeneutics into yet new fields including narrative medicine, biotechnology, the politics of memory, the philosophy of place and the non-verbal language of the body. And, building on Gadamer’s well-known discussions with Heidegger, Habermas and Derrida, Inheriting Gadamer sets him in dialogue with Mahatma Gandhi, Christine Korsgaard, Charles Mills and others. In these ways, the volume holds fast to a Gadamerian virtue: cultivating our important philosophical traditions while embracing the constant need to re-think their meaning in new circumstances and in relation to new knowledge.

Georgia Warnke is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of California, Riverside. She is also Director of the Center for Ideas and Society. She is the author of Gadamer: Hermeneutics, Tradition and Reason (Polity, 1987), Justice and Interpretation (MIT Press, 1993), Legitimate Differences: Interpretation in the Abortion Controversy and Other Public Debates (University of California Press, 1999), After Identity: Rethinking Race, Sex and Gender (Cambridge University Press, 2007) and Debating Sex and Gender (Oxford University Press, 2010).

IntroductionGeorgia Warnke

Part I Critique and Causality

1. Critical Fusions: Towards A Genuine ‘Hermeneutics of Suspicion’Lorenzo C. Simpson

2. What is Interpretive Explanation in Sociohistorical Analysis?Isaac Ariail Reed

3. The Anarchy of Hermeneutics: Interpretation as a Vital PracticeSantiago Zabala

Part II Hermeneutics and Openness

4. Elements of Style: Openness and DispositionsWhitney Mannies

5. Openness to Critical Reflection: Gandhi beyond GadamerSteven Paul Cauchon

6. Philosophical Hermeneutics and the Politics of MemoryGeorgia Warnke

Part III Place, Play and the Body

7. Place and Hermeneutics: Towards a Topology of UnderstandingJeff Malpas

8. Verbal and Nonverbal Forms of Play: Words and Bodies in the Process of UnderstandingMonica Vilhauer

Part IV Science, Medicine and Biotechnology

9. On the Integration of Scientific Knowledge into Self-UnderstandingPeter Fristedt

10. A Dialogic Approach to Narrative MedicineLeah McClimans

11. If Enhancement is the Answer, What is the Question?Lauren Swayne Barthold

Contributors

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	26.02.2016
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	527 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Sprachwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Kommunikationswissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-7486-9897-3 / 0748698973
ISBN-13	978-0-7486-9897-4 / 9780748698974
Zustand	Neuware