Gadamer’s Repercussions: Reconsidering Philosophical Hermeneutics

Published by University of California Press 2004

Gadamer’s Repercussions

Reconsidering Philosophical Hermeneutics

Edited by: Bruce Krajewski

https://doi.org/10.1525/9780520927957

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Certainly one of the key German philosophers of the twentieth century, Hans-Georg Gadamer also influenced the study of literature, art, music, sacred and legal texts, and medicine. Indeed, while much attention has been focused on Gadamer's writings about ancient Greek and modern German philosophy, the relevance of his work for other disciplines is only now beginning to be properly considered and understood. In an effort to address this slant, this volume brings together many prominent scholars to assess, re-evaluate, and question Hans-Georg Gadamer's works, as well as his place in intellectual history. The book includes a recent essay by Gadamer on "the task of hermeneutics," as well as essays by distinguished contributors including Jürgen Habermas, Richard Rorty, Gerald Bruns, Georgia Warnke, and many others.

The contributors situate Gadamer's views in surprising ways and show that his writings speak to a range of contemporary debates—from constitutional questions to issues of modern art. A controversial final section attempts to uncover and clarify Gadamer's history in relation to National Socialism. More an investigation and questioning than a celebration of this venerable and profoundly influential philosopher, this collection will become a catalyst for any future rethinking of philosophical hermeneutics, as well as a significant starting place for rereading and reviewing Hans-Georg Gadamer.

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Krajewski Bruce :

Bruce Krajewski is Professor and Chair of the Department of Literature and Philosophy at Georgia Southern University. He is the author, with Richard Heinemann, of Gadamer on Celan: "Who Am I and Who Are You?" and Other Essays (1997), Traveling with Hermes: Hermeneutics and Rhetoric (1992), and, with Doug Parker, A Brefe Dialoge bitwene a Christen Father and his stobborne Sonne: The First Protestant Catechism Published in English (1999).

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Abbreviations Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Introduction. From Word to Concept The Task of Hermeneutics as Philosophy Hans-Georg Gadamer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART ONE. Gadamer’s Influence
Chapter 1. After Historicism, Is Metaphysics Still Possible? On Hans-Georg Gadamer’s 100th Birthday Jürgen Habermas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	15
Chapter 2. Being That Can Be Understood Is Language Richard Rorty Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	21
Chapter 3. On the Coherence of Hermeneutics and Ethics An Essay on Gadamer and Levinas Gerald L. Bruns Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	30
Chapter 4. Gadamer and Romanticism Andrew Bowie Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	55
Chapter 5. Literature, Law, and Morality Georgia Warnke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
Chapter 6. A Critique of Gadamer’s Aesthetics Michael Kelly Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
PART TWO. Gadamer and Dialogue
Chapter 7. On Dialogue To Its Cultured Despisers Donald G. Marshall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	123
Chapter 8. Gadamer’s Philosophy of Dialogue and Its Relation to the Postmodernism of Nietzsche, Heidegger, Derrida, and Strauss Ronald Beiner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
Chapter 9. Meaningless Hermeneutics? Joel Weinsheimer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	158
PART THREE. Gadamer in Question
Chapter 10. Radio Nietzsche, or, How to Fall Short of Philosophy Geoff Waite Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
Chapter 11. The Art of Allusion Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Philosophical Interventions under National Socialism Teresa Orozco Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	212
Chapter 12. On the Politics of Gadamerian Hermeneutics A Response to Orozco and Waite Catherine H. Zuckert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
Chapter 13. The Protection of the Philosophical Form A Response to Zuckert Teresa Orozco Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	244
Chapter 14. Salutations A Response to Zuckert Geoff Waite Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	256
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311

Language: English
Publisher: University of California Press
Pages
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Published: December 22, 2003
ISBN: 9780520927957