The Responsibility to Understand: Hermeneutical Contours of Ethical Life

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Few topics have received broader attention within contemporary philosophy than that of responsibility. Theodore George makes a novel case for a distinctive sense of responsibility at stake in the hermeneutical experiences of understanding and interpretation. He argues for the significance of this hermeneutical responsibility in the context of our relations with things, animals and others, as well as political solidarity and the formation of solidarities through the arts, literature and translation. Acknowledgements Preface: The Unbearable Lightness of Ethics Introduction: Contemporary Hermeneutics and the Question of Responsibility Part I: The Responsibility to Understand 1 The Responsibility to Understand 2 The Capacity for Displacement Part II: I and Thou 3 ThingsAs 4 Animals 5 Others Part III: I and We 6 Solidarity 7 Arts and Literature 8 Translation Notes Bibliography Index