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In this book, first published in 1984, Joel Weinsheimer advocates
revitalizing the practice of imitating literature as a mode
appropriate for literary critics as well as artists. The book is
not only about imitation; it is itself an imitation, specifically
of Samuel Johnson. As both the focus and mode of presentation,
imitation is presented not merely as a kind of poetry that once
flourished in the eighteenth century but also as a kind of
criticism particularly relevant today. Applying arguments from
philosophy of science, deconstruction, psycho-analysis, literary
theory, semiotics and hermeneutics, Weinsheimer shows that the
three main currents of thought responsible for forcing imitation
underground were empiricism, originalism and historicism. The three
central chapters of the book concentrate on their representatives:
John Locke, Edward Young and Thomas Warton. The author then applies
Johnsonian arguments - supported by those of Gadamer Peirce - to
challenge those objections and re-establish imitation as an
intellectually defensible mode of writing.
In this book, first published in 1984, Joel Weinsheimer
advocates revitalizing the practice of imitating literature as a
mode appropriate for literary critics as well as artists. The book
is not only about imitation; it is itself an imitation,
specifically of Samuel Johnson. As both the focus and mode of
presentation, imitation is presented not merely as a kind of poetry
that once flourished in the eighteenth century but also as a kind
of criticism particularly relevant today. Applying arguments from
philosophy of science, deconstruction, psycho-analysis, literary
theory, semiotics and hermeneutics, Weinsheimer shows that the
three main currents of thought responsible for forcing imitation
underground were empiricism, originalism and historicism. The three
central chapters of the book concentrate on their representatives:
John Locke, Edward Young and Thomas Warton. The author then applies
Johnsonian arguments supported by those of Gadamer Peirce to
challenge those objections and re-establish imitation as an
intellectually defensible mode of writing. "
In this wide-ranging historical introduction to philosophical
hermeneutics, Jean Grondin discusses the major figures from Philo
to Habermas, analyzes conflicts between various interpretive
schools, and provides a persuasive critique of Gadamer's view of
hermeneutic history, though in other ways Gadamer's Truth and
Method serves as a model for Grondin's approach. Grondin begins
with brief overviews of the pre-nineteenth-century thinkers Philo,
Origen, Augustine, Luther, Flacius, Dannhauer, Chladenius, Meier,
Rambach, Ast, and Schlegel. Next he provides more extensive
treatments of such major nineteenth-century figures as
Schleiermacher, Boeckh, Droysen, and Dilthey. There are full
chapters devoted to Heidegger and Gadamer as well as shorter
discussions of Betti, Habermas, and Derrida. Because he is the
first to pay close attention to pre-Romantic figures, Grondin is
able to show that the history of hermeneutics cannot be viewed as a
gradual, steady progression in the direction of complete
universalization. His book makes it clear that even in the early
period, hermeneutic thinkers acknowledged a universal aspect in
interpretation-that long before Schleiermacher, hermeneutics was
philosophical and not merely practical. In revising and correcting
the standard account, Grondin's book is not merely introductory but
revisionary, suitable for beginners as well as advanced students in
the field.
The first English-language biography of one of the leading
intellectuals of the twentieth century Hans-Georg Gadamer
(1900-2002) was one of the greatest philosophers of our era. He was
also at the center of some of the century's darkest, most complex
historical events, for he chose to remain in his native Germany in
the 1930s, neither supporting Hitler nor actively opposing him, but
negotiating instead an "unpolitical" position that allowed him to
continue his philosophical work. In this magisterial book, Jean
Grondin appraises Gadamer's life and achievement. Drawing on
countless interviews with Gadamer and his contemporaries, Gadamer's
personal correspondence, and extensive archival research, Grondin
traces Gadamer's life as an academician and the development of his
ideas, placing them in the context of his times. He sheds light on
the genesis and accomplishment of Gadamer's major opus, Truth and
Method, the bible of modern-day hermeneutics. And he addresses the
question of Gadamer's attitude and actions amid the catastrophe of
Nazi Germany, painting a balanced portrait of a scholar who tried
to preserve German culture and tradition in the face of an invasive
menace.
In the years shortly before and after the publication of his
classic Truth and Method (1960), the eminent German philosopher
Hans-Georg Gadamer returned often to questions surrounding religion
and ethics. In this selection of writings from Gesammelte Werke
that are here translated into English for the first time, Gadamer
probes deeply into the hermeneutic significance of these subjects.
Gadamer raises issues of importance to ethicists and theologians as
well as students of language and literature. In such outstanding
essays as "Kant and the Question of God," "Thinking as Redemption:
Plotinus between Plato and Augustine," and "Friendship and
Self-Knowledge: Reflections on the Role of Friendship in Greek
Ethics," Gadamer discusses the nature of moral behavior, ethics as
a form of knowing, and the hermeneutic task of mediating ethos and
philosophical ethics with one another.
Peter Szondi is widely regarded as being among the most
distinguished post-war literary critics. This first English edition
of one of his most lucid and interesting series of lectures,
translated by Martha Woodmansee and with a foreword by Joel
Weinsheimer, opens up his work in hermeneutics for English-speaking
readers. The question of what is involved in understanding a text
occupied Biblical and legal scholars long before it became a
concern of literary critics. Peter Szondi here traces the
development of hermeneutics through examination of the work of
18th-century German scholars. Ordinarily treated only as
prefigurations of Schleiermacher, the work of Enlightenment
theorists Johann Martin Chladenius, George Friedrich Meier and
Friedrich Ast yields valuable unsight into the material theory of
interpretation, on which a practical interpretive metholody might
be built.
In this lucid and elegantly written book, Joel Weinsheimer
discusses how the insights of Hans-Georg Gadamer alter our
understanding of literary theory and interpretation. Weinsheimer
begins by surveying modern hermeneutics from Schleiermacher to
Riocoeur, showing that Gadamer's work is situated in the middle of
an ongoing dialogue. Gadamer's hermeneutics, says Weinsheimer, is
specifically philosophical for it explores how understanding occurs
at all, not how it should be regulated in order to function more
rigorously or effectively. According to Weinsheimer, Gadamer views
understanding as an effect of history, not an action but a passion,
something that happens to the interpreter. Gadamer offers a new
model of historical understanding that is based on metaphor: it
fuses the different into the same but, like metaphor, does not
repress difference. Similarly, Gadamer's critique of the semiotic
conception of language redresses the balance between difference and
sameness in the relation of word and world. The common thread in
the contributions of philosophical hermeneutics to literary theory
is the multifaceted tension between the one and the many, between
sameness and difference. This appears in metaphor and application,
in the complex dialogue between the past and present, and between
the interpretation and the interpreted generally. In the final
chapter of the book, "The Question of the Classic," Weinsheimer
explores the implications of this analysis of Gadamer's
hermeneutics for the current debate concerning the study of the
canon and the classic.
Peter Szondi is widely regarded as being among the most
distinguished post-war literary critics. This first English edition
of one of his most lucid and interesting series of lectures,
translated by Martha Woodmansee and with a foreword by Joel
Weinsheimer, opens up his work in hermeneutics for English-speaking
readers. The question of what is involved in understanding a text
occupied Biblical and legal scholars long before it became a
concern of literary critics. Peter Szondi here traces the
development of hermeneutics through examination of the work of
18th-century German scholars. Ordinarily treated only as
prefigurations of Schleiermacher, the work of Enlightenment
theorists Johann Martin Chladenius, George Friedrich Meier and
Friedrich Ast yields valuable unsight into the material theory of
interpretation, on which a practical interpretive metholody might
be built.
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