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Philosophical Hermeneutics and Literary Theory (Hardcover, New): Joel Weinsheimer Philosophical Hermeneutics and Literary Theory (Hardcover, New)
Joel Weinsheimer
R943 Discovery Miles 9 430 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

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.

Imitation (Routledge Revivals) (Paperback): Joel Weinsheimer Imitation (Routledge Revivals) (Paperback)
Joel Weinsheimer
R1,185 Discovery Miles 11 850 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Imitation (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover): Joel Weinsheimer Imitation (Routledge Revivals) (Hardcover)
Joel Weinsheimer
R4,270 Discovery Miles 42 700 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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. "

Introduction to Literary Hermeneutics (Hardcover, New): Peter Szondi Introduction to Literary Hermeneutics (Hardcover, New)
Peter Szondi; Translated by Martha Woodmansee; Foreword by Joel Weinsheimer
R2,561 R1,761 Discovery Miles 17 610 Save R800 (31%) Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Introduction to Literary Hermeneutics (Paperback, New): Peter Szondi Introduction to Literary Hermeneutics (Paperback, New)
Peter Szondi; Translated by Martha Woodmansee; Foreword by Joel Weinsheimer
R931 Discovery Miles 9 310 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Introduction to Philosophical Hermeneutics (Paperback, New Ed): Jean Grondin Introduction to Philosophical Hermeneutics (Paperback, New Ed)
Jean Grondin; Translated by Joel Weinsheimer
R778 Discovery Miles 7 780 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

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.

Untimely Ripped (Paperback): Joel Weinsheimer Untimely Ripped (Paperback)
Joel Weinsheimer
R406 R350 Discovery Miles 3 500 Save R56 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Hermeneutics, Religion, and Ethics (Paperback): Hans Georg Gadamer Hermeneutics, Religion, and Ethics (Paperback)
Hans Georg Gadamer; Translated by Joel Weinsheimer
R931 Discovery Miles 9 310 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Hans-Georg Gadamer - A Biography (Paperback): Jean Grondin Hans-Georg Gadamer - A Biography (Paperback)
Jean Grondin; Translated by Joel Weinsheimer
R1,838 Discovery Miles 18 380 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

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