Contemporary Hermeneutics. Hermeneutics as Method, Philosophy and Critique

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Title page ......Page 2 Copyright page ......Page 3 Contents ......Page 6 Preface ......Page 9 Introduction ......Page 12 I. Hermeneutical Theory ......Page 18 Introduction ......Page 20 1. The origin of hermeneutics ......Page 22 2. Romanticist heremenutics ......Page 24 3. Historical hermeneutics ......Page 27 4. Dilthey and the Critique of Historical Reason ......Page 30 5. Conclusions: objectivist remnants in classical hermeneutical theory ......Page 34 1. The metascience of hermeneutics ......Page 38 2. Methodological implications ......Page 47 3. The practice of interpretation ......Page 50 4. Conclusions: Verstehen as a method of the social sciences? ......Page 58 Contents of Reading I ......Page 62 The place of the hermeneutical problematic in contemporary consciousness ......Page 63 Objectivations of Mind ......Page 64 Representational function and meaning of expression ......Page 65 Interpretation as a triadic process ......Page 67 Inversion of the creative and transposition into the subjectivity of an Other ......Page 68 Guidelines for interpretation the canon of the hermeneutical autonomy of the object ......Page 69 The canon of the coherence of meaning (principle of totality) ......Page 70 Analogy and further development ......Page 72 Affinity with the subject-matter and the 'upon-which' of inquiry ......Page 73 The question whether objectivity of historical phenomena is attainable ......Page 75 The role of the historian's values value-oriented interpretation ......Page 76 Answer to the historical question posed ......Page 78 The meaning of an historical phenomenon and present significance ......Page 79 Dialogue and monologue ......Page 80 Historical interpretation and eschatological meaning-inference ......Page 81 The threat to objectivity ......Page 84 On theological hermeneutics and the 'demythologization' of the Kerygma ......Page 85 The recent turn towards the historicality of understanding ......Page 87 Prejudice as the condition of understanding ......Page 88 The existential foundation of the hermeneutical circle ......Page 89 The question concerning the correctness of understanding ......Page 90 Historical understanding as mediation of past and present ......Page 92 Call for an applicative use of interpretation ......Page 93 Only justified in normatively oriented interpretation ......Page 94 The canon of the hermeneutical correspondence of meaning (meaning-adequacy in understanding) ......Page 95 The character as a product of historical forms of life leads to a problematic of a higher order ......Page 97 Technical-morphological interpretation in view of the problems of formation to be solved ......Page 98 Meaning-structure and style as products of the autonomy of mental powers ......Page 101 Notes ......Page 103 II. Heremeneutic philosophy ......Page 106 Introduction ......Page 108 3. Heidegger's existential-ontological hermeneutic ......Page 109 1. Hermeneutic philosophy as a transcendental inquiry ......Page 110 4. Bultmann's theological hermeneutic ......Page 115 1. The historicity of understanding ......Page 119 2. Understanding as a dialogical process ......Page 124 3. The linguisticality of understanding ......Page 125 6. Conclusions: hermeneutic philosophy and hermeneutical theory ......Page 128 1. The universal aspect of hermeneutic philosophy ......Page 129 2. The critique of method ......Page 133 Reading 2: Hans-Georg Gadamer - The universality of the hermeneutical problem ......Page 139 Notes ......Page 151 III. Critical hermeneutics ......Page 152 Introduction ......Page 154 7. Apel: critical hermeneutics in the form of an anthropology of knowledge ......Page 157 1. Differences with Gadamer ......Page 158 2. The transformation of philosophy ......Page 161 8. Habermas's program of a dialectical-hermenutical social science ......Page 163 1. The 'hermeneutic dispute' between Habermas and Gadamer ......Page 164 2. Towards a theory of communicative competence ......Page 169 9. Materialist hermeneutics ......Page 176 1. Lorenzer 'materialist' hermeneutics and psychoanalysis ......Page 177 2. Sandkuhler's 'materialistic hermeneutics' ......Page 182 10. Conclusions: hermeneutics and Marxism ......Page 186 Hermeneutic(al) interpretation and Marxism ......Page 189 I. ......Page 192 II. ......Page 201 III. ......Page 214 Notes ......Page 220 IV. Summary and new perspectives ......Page 224 Introduction ......Page 226 1. The conflict of interpretations ......Page 228 2. Bultmann and Levi-Strauss ......Page 229 3. Phenomenology and hermeneutics ......Page 230 4. Structuralism and hermeneutics ......Page 233 5. Psychoanalysis and interpretation ......Page 238 1. What is a text? ......Page 240 2. Meaningful action considered as a text ......Page 242 13. Conclusions: Ricoeur and the hermeneutic dispute ......Page 244 1. The origin of hermeneutics ......Page 247 2. Grafting hermeneutics onto phenomenology ......Page 249 3. The level of semantics ......Page 255 4. The level of reflection ......Page 259 5. The existential level ......Page 262 Notes ......Page 267 Conclusion ......Page 268 Part I ......Page 271 Part II ......Page 272 Part III ......Page 273 Part IV ......Page 275 Glossary ......Page 276 Bibliography ......Page 283 Name index ......Page 292 Subject index ......Page 294