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Philosophical Hermeneutics Reinterpreted: Dialogues with Existentialism, Pragmatism, Critical Theory and Postmodernism

By Paul Fairfield

Book information

Publisher
Continuum
Year
2011
ISBN
1441116389, 9781441116383
LCC
BD241 .F33 2011
Google Books ID
Xua2cQAACAAJ
Open Library ID
OL25108914M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
632 kB (647479 bytes)
Series
Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy
Pages
272\272
Orientation
yes
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-04 16:00:00

Description

In this important new study, Paul Fairfield examines a number of issues of central importance to philosophical hermeneutics. His aim is less to reexamine the basic hypotheses of hermeneutics (Gadamer's hermeneutics in particular) than to understand it in relational terms, by bringing it into closer association with existentialism, pragmatism, critical theory, and postmodernism. Fairfield contends that there are important affinities and areas for critical exchange between hermeneutics and these four schools of thought which have, until now, remained underappreciated. Philosophical Hermeneutics Reinterpreted examines several of these connections by interpreting hermeneutics in relation to specific themes in the writings of key figures within each of these traditions. In so doing, he both clarifies some outstanding issues in hermeneutics and advances the subject beyond what Heidegger, Gadamer, and Ricoeur have given us.

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