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Hermeneutics is a major theoretical and practical form of
intellectual enquiry, central not only to philosophy but many other
disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. With
phenomenology and existentialism, it is also one of the twentieth
century's most important philosophical movements and includes major
thinkers such as Heidegger, Gadamer and Ricoeur. The Routledge
Companion to Hermeneutics is an outstanding guide and reference
source to the key philosophers, topics and themes in this exciting
subject and is the first volume of its kind. Comprising over fifty
chapters by a team of international contributors the Companion is
divided into five parts: main figures in the hermeneutical
tradition movement, including Heidegger, Gadamer and Ricoeur main
topics in hermeneutics such as language, truth, relativism and
history the engagement of hermeneutics with central disciplines
such as literature, religion, race and gender, and art hermeneutics
and world philosophies including Asian, Islamic and Judaic thought
hermeneutic challenges and debates, such as critical theory,
structuralism and phenomenology.
What are the foundations of human self-understanding and the value
of responsible philosophical questioning? Focusing on Heidegger's
early work on facticity, historicity, and the phenomenological
hermeneutics of factical-historical life, Hans-Helmuth Gander
develops an idea of understanding that reflects our connection with
the world and other, and thus invites deep consideration of
phenomenology, hermeneutics, and deconstruction. He draws usefully
on Husserl's phenomenology and provides grounds for exchange with
Descartes, Dilthey, Nietzsche, Gadamer, Ricoeur, and Foucault. On
the way to developing a contemporary hermeneutical philosophy,
Gander clarifies the human relation to self in and through
conversation with Heidegger's early hermeneutics. Questions about
reading and writing then follow as these are the very actions that
structure human self-understanding and world understanding.
Hermeneutics is a major theoretical and practical form of
intellectual enquiry, central not only to philosophy but many other
disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. With
phenomenology and existentialism, it is also one of the twentieth
century's most important philosophical movements and includes major
thinkers such as Heidegger, Gadamer and Ricoeur. The Routledge
Companion to Hermeneutics is an outstanding guide and reference
source to the key philosophers, topics and themes in this exciting
subject and is the first volume of its kind. Comprising over fifty
chapters by a team of international contributors the Companion is
divided into five parts: main figures in the hermeneutical
tradition movement, including Heidegger, Gadamer and Ricoeur main
topics in hermeneutics such as language, truth, relativism and
history the engagement of hermeneutics with central disciplines
such as literature, religion, race and gender, and art hermeneutics
and world philosophies including Asian, Islamic and Judaic thought
hermeneutic challenges and debates, such as critical theory,
structuralism and phenomenology.
Relationships are the glue that holds the world together. As the
author shows, this common belief applies to ancient Greece as much
as to contemporary Aotearoa New Zealand. Based on long-term
ethnographic fieldwork, this anthropological study dedicates itself
to the topic of friendship - this flexible type of sociality that
has become increasingly significant in people's lives throughout
the world. At the core stand the friendship conceptions and
life-worlds of M?ori (the indigenous population) and Pakeha (the
descendants of the predominately European settler population)
actors in New Zealand. By tracing out people's "friendship worlds"
in their wider societal context, the author takes up current
debates surrounding issues of identity and sociality, indigeneity
and diversity. By furthering our understanding of the social
dynamics of friendship in New Zealand, the study not only
contributes to the growing field of friendship research, it also
reveals important implications for the understanding of group
relations in a postcolonial, so-called "multicultural" society.
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