Gadamer and Ricoeur

Critical Horizons for Contemporary Hermeneutics
Herausgeber: Mootz, Francis J. III; Taylor, George H.

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Produktbeschreibung

Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur were two of the most important hermeneutical philosophers of the twentieth century. Gadamer single-handedly revived hermeneutics as a philosophical field with his many essays and his masterpiece, Truth and Method. Ricoeur famously mediated the Gadamer-Habermas debate and advanced his own hermeneutical philosophy through a number of books addressing social theory, religion, psychoanalysis and political philosophy. This book brings Gadamer and Ricoeur into a hermeneutical conversation with each other through some of their most important commentators. Twelve leading scholars deliver contemporary assessments of the history and promise of hermeneutical philosophy, providing focused discussion on the work of these two key hermeneutical thinkers. The book shows how the horizons of their thought at once support and question each other and how, in many ways, the work of these two pioneering philosophers defines the issues and agendas for the new century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Continnuum-3PL
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. April 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 622g
• ISBN-13: 9781441175991
• ISBN-10: 1441175997
• Artikelnr.: 31702967

Autorenporträt

Francis J. Mootz III is William S. Boyd Professor of Law at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA. His publications include Law, Hermeneutics and Rhetoric (Ashgate, forthcoming 2010), Rhetorical Knowledge in Legal Practice and Critical Legal Theory (University of Alabama Press, 2006) and On Philosophy in American Law (CUP, 2009). George H. Taylor is Professor of Law at the University of Pittsburgh, USA. He is the editor of Paul Ricoeur's Lectures on Ideology and Utopia (Columbia University Press, 1986).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction George H. Taylor and Francis J. Mootz III \ I. History \ 1.
Destruktion-Konstruktion: Heidegger, Gadamer, Ricoeur P. Christopher Smith
\ II. Engagements \ 2. The Dialectic of Belonging and Distanciation in
Gadamer and Ricoeur Merold Westphal \ 3. Hermeneutics as Project of
Liberation: The Concept of Tradition in Paul Ricoeur and Hans-Georg Gadamer
Andreea Deciu Ritivoi \ 4. Gadamer's Rhetorical Conception of Hermeneutics
as the Key to Developing a Critical Hermeneutics Francis J. Mootz III \ 5.
Understanding as Metaphoric, Not a Fusion of Horizons George H. Taylor \ 6.
Where Is Muthos Hiding in Gadamer's Hermeneutics? Or, the Ontological
Privilege of Emplotment John Arthos \ 7. Paul Ricoeur's and Hans-Georg
Gadamer's Diverging Reflections on Recognition David Vessey \ 8. Is
Phronesis Deinon? Ricoeur on Tragedy and Phronesis David H. Fisher \ III.
Extensions \ 9. Ricoeur's Model of Translation and Responsible Political
Practice Bernard P. Dauenhauer \ 10. Understanding the Body: The Relevance
of Gadamer's and Ricoeur's View of the Body for Feminist Theory Louise D.
Derksen and Annemie Halsema \ 11. Thing Hermeneutics David M. Kaplan \ 12.
Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics and New Confucianism Kathleen Wright \
Bibliography \ List of Contributors \ Index \