Inheriting Gadamer : : New Directions in Philosophical Hermeneutics / / Georgia Warnke.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Warnke, Georgia,
• MitwirkendeR: Ariail Reed, Isaac,; Cauchon, Steven Paul,; Fristedt, Peter,; Malpas, Jeff,; Mannies, Whitney,; McClimans, Leah,; Simpson, Lorenzo C.,; Swayne Barthold, Lauren,; Vilhauer, Monica,; Warnke, Georgia,; Zabala, Santiago,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)

12 new essays analyse and extend Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics, taking it in new directions and opening new dialoguesHans-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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Critique and Causality -- 1. Critical Fusions: Towards A Genuine 'Hermeneutics of Suspicion' -- 2. What is Interpretive Explanation in Sociohistorical Analysis? -- 3. The Anarchy of Hermeneutics: Interpretation as a Vital Practice -- Part II. Hermeneutics and Openness -- 4. Elements of Style: Openness and Dispositions -- 5. Openness to Critical Reflection: Gandhi beyond Gadamer -- 6. Philosophical Hermeneutics and the Politics of Memory -- Part III. Place, Play and the Body -- 7. Place and Hermeneutics: Towards a Topology of Understanding -- 8. Verbal and Nonverbal Forms of Play: Words and Bodies in the Process of Understanding -- Part IV. Science, Medicine and Biotechnology -- 9. On the Integration of Scientific Knowledge into Self- Understanding -- 10. A Dialogic Approach to Narrative Medicine -- 11. If Enhancement is the Answer, What is the Question? -- Contributors -- Index