Existentia Hermeneutica: Understanding as the Mode of Being in the World

by Andrzej Wiercinski

Overview

Existentia hermeneutica is phronetic existence with the aim of cultivating practical wisdom in human life: It comes from life, influences life, and transforms life. Understanding what is happening in life requires reaching the hermeneutic truth, which is the truth of understanding. The experience of hermeneutic truth calls for personal commitment and existential response, and, thus, expresses the hermeneutic moral imperative. Referring to Heidegger's phenomenological analytics of Dasein, Gadamer emphasizes that understanding is not only one of the human capabilities, but a way of Dasein's being-in-the-world.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783643911513
Publisher:	Lit Verlag
Publication date:	03/10/2020
Series:	International Studies in Hermeneutics an
Pages:	560
Product dimensions:	6.25(w) x 9.25(h) x 1.10(d)
Age Range:	Up to 10 Years

About the Author

Andrzej Wiercinski is Professor of Philosophy of Religion at Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg, Germany and President-Founder of the International Institute for Hermeneutics.