Gadamer and ricoeur : critical horizons for contemporary hermeneutics

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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 le. Read more... Abstract: A collection of essays bringing together and exploring the connections between two figures in twentieth-century hermeneutics, Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur. It brings Gadamer and Ricoeur into a hermeneutical conversation with each other. It shows how the horizons of their thought at once support and question each other. Read more...