Philosophical Hermeneutics Reinterpreted: Dialogues with Existentialism, Pragmatism, Critical Theory and Postmodernism

by Paul Fairfield

Overview

In this important new study, Paul Fairfield examines a number of issues of central importance to philosophical hermeneutics. His aim is less to reexamine the basic hypotheses of hermeneutics (Gadamer's hermeneutics in particular) than to understand it in relational terms, by bringing it into closer association with existentialism, pragmatism, critical theory, and postmodernism. Fairfield contends that there are important affinities and areas for critical exchange between hermeneutics and these four schools of thought which have, until now, remained underappreciated.

Philosophical Hermeneutics Reinterpreted examines several of these connections by interpreting hermeneutics in relation to specific themes in the writings of key figures within each of these traditions. In so doing, he both clarifies some outstanding issues in hermeneutics and advances the subject beyond what Heidegger, Gadamer, and Ricoeur have given us.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781441139009
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	08/11/2011
Series:	Continuum Studies in Continental Philosophy
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	633 KB

About the Author

Paul Fairfield is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Queen's University, Canada.
Paul Fairfield is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Queen's University, Canada.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Hermeneutical Engagements\Part I. Existentialism
\ 1. Perspectivism: Friedrich Nietzsche\2. Reason as Boundless
Communication: Karl Jaspers\3. The Thou and the Mass: Gabriel Marcel\Part
II. Pragmatism\4. Truth Without Foundations: William James\5. The
Theory of Inquiry: John Dewey\6. Practice, Theory, and Anti-Theory: Richard
Rorty\Part III. Critical Theory\7. Interpretation and
Criticism: Max Horkheimer\8. Deliberative Politics: Jürgen Habermas\9.
Communicative Ethics: Karl-Otto Apel\Part IV. Postmodernism\10.
Genealogy and Suspicious Interpretation: Michel Foucault\11. Radical
Hermeneutics: John Caputo\11. Unprincipled Judgments: Jean-François Lyotard \
Notes\Bibliography\Index