Monica Vilhauer

Curious Soul Philosophy
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    Otherwise than the binary: new feminist readings in ancient philosophy and culture (edited book)
    with Jessica Elbert Decker and Danielle A. Layne
    SUNY Press. 2022.
    Examines traditional sites of binary thinking in ancient Greek texts and culture to demonstrate surprising ambiguity, especially with regard to sexual difference.
  • Socratic Dialogue and the Ethical Conditions of Knowledge
    Skepsis: A Journal for Philosophy and Interdisciplinary Research 16 (1-2). 2005.
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    Beyond the “Fusion Of Horizons”
    Philosophy Today 53 (4): 359-364. 2009.
    By moving beyond the overly emphasized image of a “fusion of horizons” and focusing on Gadamer’s concept of “play,” this paper aims to rehabilitate the dynamic and multi-vocal character of understanding as Gadamer conceives it, and to argue that “difference” is the life-blood of understanding against the recurring charge that Gadamer’s hermeneutics is fundamentally antagonistic to otherness.
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    6 Gadamer and the game of understanding
    In Emily Ryall (ed.), The Philosophy of Play, Routledge. pp. 75. 2013.
    By Focusing on Hans-Georg Gadamer’s magnum opus Truth and Method, this paper aims to show how understanding itself — including the understanding of artworks, texts, tradition, and living speech — can be understood as a kind of game or dialogical play-process which requires crucial ethical conditions to be met if it is going to succeed. Success, in terms of the communication of meaning, requires that the players (or interlocutors) commit to a genuine participation with each other in which they “…Read more
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    Gadamer's Ethics of Play examines the ethical dimensions of understanding by focusing on the concept of dialogical "play" in Hans-Georg Gadamer's Truth and Method. The book is accessible to an undergraduate audience, while also being relevant to ongoing debates among Gadamer scholars.