Introduction to Philosophical Hermeneutics
by Grondin, Jean; Weinsheimer, JoelFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1997-03-01
Publisher(s): Yale Univ Pr
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Summary
In this book, Jean Grondin discusses the major figures from Philo to Habermas, analyzes conflicts between various interpretive schools, and provides a persuasive account and a critical appraisal of Gadamer's Truth and Method. This book is destined to become a first-hand working instrument for all those who wish to initiate themselves to the discipline.
Table of Contents
| Foreword | |
| Preface | |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| On the Prehistory of Hermeneutics | p. 16 |
| Linguistic Delimitations | p. 16 |
| The Semantics of hermeneuein | p. 20 |
| Allegorical Interpretation of Myth | p. 23 |
| Philo: The Universality of Allegory | p. 26 |
| Origen: The Universality of Typology | p. 28 |
| Augustine: The Universality of the Inner Logos | p. 32 |
| Luther: Sola Scriptura? | p. 39 |
| Flacius: The Universality of the Grammatical | p. 42 |
| Hermeneutics between Grammar and Critique | p. 45 |
| Dannhauer: True Interpretation and Interpretive Truth | p. 47 |
| Chladenius: The Universality of the Pedagogical | p. 50 |
| Meier: The Universality of Signs | p. 56 |
| Pietism: The Universality of the Affective | p. 59 |
| Romantic Hermeneutics and Schleiermacher | p. 63 |
| The Post-Kantian Transition from the Enlightenment to Romanticism: Ast and Schlegel | p. 63 |
| Schleiermacher's Universalization of Misunderstanding | p. 67 |
| Limiting Hermeneutics to Psychology? | p. 72 |
| The Dialectical Ground of Hermeneutics | p. 73 |
| The Problems of Historicism | p. 76 |
| Bockh and the Dawn of Historical Awareness | p. 76 |
| Droysen's Universal Historiology: Understanding as Research in the Moral World | p. 79 |
| Dilthey: On the Way to Hermeneutics | p. 84 |
| Heidegger: Hermeneutics as the Interpretation of Existence | p. 91 |
| The "Fore" of Fore-Understanding | p. 92 |
| Its Transparency in Interpretation | p. 96 |
| The Idea of a Philosophical Hermeneutics of Facticity | p. 98 |
| The Derivative Status of Statements? | p. 100 |
| Hermeneutics after the Turn | p. 102 |
| Gadamer and the Universe of Hermeneutics | p. 106 |
| Back to the Human Sciences | p. 106 |
| The Overcoming of Historicist Hermeneutics | p. 110 |
| Effective History as Principle | p. 113 |
| Understanding as Questioning and Therefore Application | p. 115 |
| Language as Dialogue | p. 117 |
| The Universality of the Hermeneutic Universe | p. 120 |
| Hermeneutics in Dialogue | p. 124 |
| Betti's Epistemological Return to the Inner Spirit | p. 125 |
| Habermas's Critique of Hermeneutics in the Name of Agreement | p. 129 |
| The Deconstructive Challenge to Hermeneutics | p. 135 |
| Afterword | p. 140 |
| Notes | p. 145 |
| Bibliography | p. 169 |
| Index | p. 229 |
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