The Hermeneutics of Postmodernity : Figures and Themes / / G.B. Madison.
Does the end of modernism signal the onslaught of some form of anarchistic nihilism, as some today proclaim? Or can the traditional guiding notions of philosophy—in particular, meaning, truth, and reality—be revitalized in a nonfoundational, postmetaphysical, decidedly postmodern way? The figures ab...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bloomington : : Indiana University Press,, 1988. ©1988. |
| Year of Publication: | 1988 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in phenomenology and existential philosophy
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 online resource xvi, 206 pages.) |
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Figures: A critique of Hirsch's Validity
- Method of interpretation
- Husserl's hermeneutical contribution to the explanation-understanding debate
- Merleau-Ponty and postmodernity
- Ricoeur's philosophy of metaphor
- Ricoeur and the hermeneutics of the subject
- Beyond seriousness and frivolity: a Gadamerian response to deconstruction
- pt. 2. Themes: Metaphysics as myth
- Dialogue on metaphor
- The hermeneutics of (inter)subjectivity, or: the mind-body problem deconstructed
- The philosophic centrality of the imagination: a postmodern approach.