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 leading scholars deliver contemporary assessments of the history and promise of hermeneutical philosophy, providing focused discussion on the work of these two key hermeneutical thinkers. The book shows how the horizons of their thought at once support and question each other and how, in many ways, the work of these two pioneering philosophers defines the issues and agendas for the new century. Cover Half-title Series Title Copyright Contents Introduction Part I History Chapter 1 Destruktion-Konstruktion: Heidegger, Gadamer, Ricoeur Part II Engagements Chapter 2 The Dialectic of Belonging and Distanciation in Gadamer and Ricoeur Chapter 3 Hermeneutics as Project of Liberation: The Concept of Tradition in Paul Ricoeur and Hans-Georg Gadamer Chapter 4 Gadamer’s Rhetorical Conception of Hermeneutics as the Key to Developing a Critical Hermeneutics Chapter 5 Understanding as Metaphoric, Not a Fusion of Horizons Chapter 6 Where Is Muthos Hiding in Gadamer’s Hermeneutics? Or, the Ontological Privilege of Emplotment Chapter 7 Paul Ricoeur’s and Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Diverging Refl ections on Recognition Chapter 8 Is Phronēsis Deinon? Ricoeur on Tragedy and Phronēsis Part III Extensions Chapter 9 Ricoeur’s Model of Translation and Responsible Political Practice Chapter 10 Understanding the Body: The Relevance of Gadamer’s and Ricoeur’s View of the Body for Feminist Theory Chapter 11 Thing Hermeneutics Chapter 12 Gadamer’s Philosophical Hermeneutics and New Confucianism Bibliography List of Contributors Subject Index Name Index