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4Understanding HermeneuticsRoutledge. 2006.This series provides short, accessible and lively introduction to the major schools, movements and traditions in philosophy and the history of ideas since the beginning of the Enlightenment. All books in the series are written for undergraduates meeting the subject for the first time. Hermeneutics concerns itself with the theory of understanding and the interpretation of language. The question of how to correctly interpret and understand others remains one of the most contested branches of philo…Read more
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20Hans-Georg Gadamer on Education, Poetry, and History: Applied Hermeneutics (edited book)State University of New York Press. 1992.In these essays, appearing for the first time in English, Gadamer addresses practical questions about recent politics in Europe, about education and university reform, and about the role of poetry in the modern world. This book also includes a series of interviews that the editors conducted in 1986. Gadamer elaborates on his experiences in education and politics, touching on the collapse of the Weimar Republic, the early Frankfurt School, Heidegger and the Nazis, university life in East Germany,…Read more
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3Application and PraxisIn Niall Keane & Chris Lawn (eds.), A Companion to Hermeneutics, Wiley. 2015.There are broad and narrow senses of hermeneutic application as well as of hermeneutic praxis. The broad sense of hermeneutic application means using what one has already understood in some later situation. Hermeneutic praxis in the narrow sense refers to an interpreter using a hermeneutic theory to interpret written or spoken language. The narrow sense of hermeneutic application is discussed by Hans‐Georg Gadamer in Truth and Method as the central problem of philosophical hermeneutics. Friedric…Read more
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12Chapter Eleven. Intercultural Understanding in Philosophical HermeneuticsIn Ming Xie (ed.), The Agon of Interpretations: Towards a Critical Intercultural Hermeneutics, University of Toronto Press. pp. 210-232. 2014.
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36Jonathan Edward’s Idealistic Argument From ResistanceSouthwest Philosophy Review 4 (2): 39-47. 1988.
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12When the Text Speaks the Truth: The Preconception of CompletionSouthern Journal of Philosophy 25 (3): 395-405. 1987.
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20Language and Linguisticality in Gadamer's HermeneuticsLexington Books. 2000.In this book, internationally recognized scholars in philosophical hermeneutics discuss various aspects of language and linguisticality. The translations of Hans-Georg Gadamer's two recent essays provoke a preliminary discussion on the philosopher's polemic claim in Truth and Method—"Being that can be understood is language." Topics addressed by the contributors include the relationship of rituals to tradition and the immemorial; the unity of the word; conversation; translation and conceptuality…Read more
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20Matthew Foster., Gadamer and Practical Philosophy; P. Christopher Smith., Hermeneutics and Human FinitudeInternational Studies in Philosophy 26 (2): 118-120. 1994.
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1Jerald Wallulis, The Hermeneutics of Life History: Personal Achievement and History in Gadamer, Habermas, and Erikson Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 12 (1): 69-71. 1992.
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10Critique: The Heart of Philosophical HermeneuticsIn Jeff Malpas & Santiago Zabala (eds.), Consequences of Hermeneutics: Fifty Years After Gadamer's Truth and Method, Northwestern University Press. pp. 202. 2010.
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41When the text Speaks the truth: The preconception of completionSouthern Journal of Philosophy 25 (3): 395-405. 1987.
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9The specter of relativism: truth, dialogue, and phronesis in philosophical hermeneutics (edited book)Northwestern University Press. 1995.This text adresses the timely topic of relativism from the perspective of Gadamer's hermeneutics. This collection of essays explores several of the key issues in contemporary philosophy - the nature of truth, the model of conversation, and the possibility of an ethics in postmodern conditions - in the context of the work of Gadamer. Although centred on Gadamer and including the first English translation of one of his essays, the volume does not narrowly define or defend the approach of philosoph…Read more
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71Respecting others: The hermeneutic virtue (review)Continental Philosophy Review 33 (3): 359-379. 2000.
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16Understanding HermeneuticsAcumen Publishing. 2006.Presenting the major schools, movements and traditions in philosophy and the history of ideas since the beginning of the Enlightenment, this work introduces modern hermeneutics through an examination of the ideas of its key philosophical proponents.
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11Adjudicating Ethical PrejudgementsJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology 34 (3): 281-296. 2003.
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