Existentia Hermeneutica: Understanding as the Mode of Being in the World

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Existentia hermeneutica is phronetic existence with the aim of cultivating practical wisdom in human life; it comes from life, influences life, and transforms life. Understanding what is happening in life requires reaching the hermeneutic truth, which is the truth of understanding. The experience of hermeneutic truth calls for personal commitment and existential response, and, thus, expresses the hermeneutic moral imperative. Referring to Heidegger's phenomenological analytics of Dasein, Gadamer emphasizes that understanding is not only one of the human capabilities, but a way of Dasein's being-in-the-world. Contents 1. Introduction 1. 1. Doing Hermeneutics: Hermeneutics as the Practice of Interpretation 1. 2. Hermeneutic Existence as Phronetic Existence: The Radicality of Human Responsibility 2. Hermeneutic Discovery of a Theological Insight: Toward a Hermeneutic Philosophy of Religion 2. 1. The Ambiguities of Proximity: Between Philosophy and Theology 2. 2. Thinking Hermeneutically: Opening toward Transcendence as the Imperative of Self-Understanding 2. 3. Questioning the Absolute: Toward the New Beginning 2. 4. Understanding as the Happening of Truth 3. Poetic Disclosure: Language as the Medium of the Hermeneutic Experience 3. 1. Poetry Between Concealment and Unconcealment 3. 2. Borders of the Borders: Life as Amazement 3. 3. Nothing Shall Be Forgotten: Poetry and Ways of Understanding 3. 4. Confusion of Voices: The Crucial Dilemmas of Being a Human Being, Czesław Miłosz’s Poetry, and the Search for Personal Identity 4. Hermeneutic Challenge: The Future of Hermeneutics Credits/Acknowledgments