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Gadamer and the Question of Understanding - Between Heidegger and Derrida (Paperback)
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Gadamer and the Question of Understanding - Between Heidegger and Derrida (Paperback)
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Hans-Georg Gadamer is depicted as a paradoxical figure in the
literature. When Gadamer's work is approached by itself, outside
the history of hermeneutics, he is generally presented as the
disciple of Martin Heidegger, whose main theoretical contribution
lies in having transposed his ontological hermeneutics into the
sphere of the human sciences. Usually the master-student relation
ends with a break between the two brought about by the student's
desire to become herself a master. In Gadamer and Heidegger's case,
scholarship has always excluded the possibility of such a symbolic
parricide. However, when Gadamer's work is approached from the
history of hermeneutics, he, not Heidegger, is revered as the
central figure of hermeneutic theory in the twentieth century, and
scholars perceive the works of the latter-together with those of
his immediate forerunners Friedrich Schleiermacher and Wilhelm
Dilthey-as mere preambles to the great hermeneutic theory proposed
by Truth and Method, and the works of those following him as
footnotes to it. Gadamer and the Question of Understanding: Between
Heidegger and Derrida dismantles this paradox by showing, on the
one hand, that Gadamer's translation of Heidegger involved, as he
himself says, a series of "essential alterations" to the original
which make philosophical hermeneutics a more coherent and better
articulated hermeneutic theory, one offering a more faithful
description of the phenomenon of understanding than Heidegger's.
And, on the other hand, by taking the dossier of the famous
encounter between Gadamer and Derrida as its cue, Adrian Costache
demonstrates that in light of Derrida's deconstruction, every step
Gadamer takes forward from Heidegger as well as from Schleiermacher
and Dilthey-however necessary--is problematic in itself. The
insights in this book will be valuable to students and scholars
interested in modern and contemporary European philosophy,
especially those focusing on philosophical hermeneutics and
deconstruction, as well as those working in social sciences that
have incorporated a hermeneutic approach to their investigations,
such as pedagogy, sociology, psychotherapy, law, and nursing.
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