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Introduction to Philosophical Hermeneutics

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ISBN-10: 0300070896

ISBN-13: 9780300070897

Edition: 1997

Authors: Jean Grondin, Joel Weinsheimer, Jean Grondin

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In this wide-ranging historical introduction to hermeneutics, Jean Grodin discusses the major figures from Philo to Habermas, analyses conflicts between various interpretative schools, and provides a critical appraisal of Gadamer's Truth and Method.
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Book details

List price: $28.00
Copyright year: 1997
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 2/27/1997
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 252
Size: 0.66" wide x 0.91" long x 0.06" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

Foreword
Preface
Introduction
On the Prehistory of Hermeneutics
Linguistic Delimitations
The Semantics of hermeneuein
Allegorical Interpretation of Myth
Philo: The Universality of Allegory
Origen: The Universality of Typology
Augustine: The Universality of the Inner Logos
Luther: Sola Scriptura?
Flacius: The Universality of the Grammatical
Hermeneutics between Grammar and Critique
Dannhauer: True Interpretation and Interpretive Truth
Chladenius: The Universality of the Pedagogical
Meier: The Universality of Signs
Pietism: The Universality of the Affective
Romantic Hermeneutics and Schleiermacher
The Post-Kantian Transition from the Enlightenment to Romanticism: Ast and Schlegel
Schleiermacher's Universalization of Misunderstanding
Limiting Hermeneutics to Psychology?
The Dialectical Ground of Hermeneutics
The Problems of Historicism
Bockh and the Dawn of Historical Awareness
Droysen's Universal Historiology: Understanding as Research in the Moral World
Dilthey: On the Way to Hermeneutics
Heidegger: Hermeneutics as the Interpretation of Existence
The "Fore" of Fore-Understanding
Its Transparency in Interpretation
The Idea of a Philosophical Hermeneutics of Facticity
The Derivative Status of Statements?
Hermeneutics after the Turn
Gadamer and the Universe of Hermeneutics
Back to the Human Sciences
The Overcoming of Historicist Hermeneutics
Effective History as Principle
Understanding as Questioning and Therefore Application
Language as Dialogue
The Universality of the Hermeneutic Universe
Hermeneutics in Dialogue
Betti's Epistemological Return to the Inner Spirit
Habermas's Critique of Hermeneutics in the Name of Agreement
The Deconstructive Challenge to Hermeneutics
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index