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This book discusses the ethical dimension of the interpretation of
texts and events. Its purpose is not to address the neutrality or
ideological biases of interpreters, but rather to discuss the
underlying issue of the intervention of interpreters into the
process of interpretation. The author calls this intervention the
"ethical" aspect of interpretation and argues that interpreters are
neither neutral nor necessarily activists. He examines three models
of interpretation, all of which recognize the role that
interpreters play in the process of interpretation. In these
models, the question of the truth or validity of interpretation is
dependent upon the attitude of interpreters. These three models
are: (1) the principle of charity in interpretation in the two
different versions defended by Hans-Georg Gadamer and Donald
Davidson; (2) the production of truth, as developed by Paul Ricoeur
and Michel Foucault; and (3) the regulative principle in
interpretation as formal validity claims-as presented by Karl-Otto
Apel and Jurgen Habermas-and as benevolence or love as an epistemic
virtue-as defended by Friedrich Schlegel and Friedrich
Schleiermacher. The critical discussion of these three models,
which brings to the fore the different manners in which
interpreters intervene in the process of interpretation as persons,
lays the foundations for an ethics of interpretation. The Ethics of
Interpretation will be of interest to scholars and advanced
students working in hermeneutics, 19th- and 20th-century
philosophy, literary theory, and cultural theory.
While there are many books on the romantics, and many books on
Heidegger, there has been no book exploring the connection between
the two. Pol Vandevelde's new study forges this important link.
Vandevelde begins by analyzing two models that have addressed the
interaction between literature and philosophy: early German
romanticism (especially Schlegel and Novalis), and Heidegger's work
with poetry in the 1930s. Both models offer an alternative to the
paradigm of mimesis, as exemplified by Aristotle's and Plato's
discussion of poetry, and both German romanticism and Heidegger owe
a deep debt to Plato. The study goes on to defend the view that
Heidegger was influenced by romanticism. The author's project is
thus both historical, showing the specificity of the romantic and
Heideggerean works, and systematic, defending aspects of their
alternative mode of thinking while also pointing to their
weaknesses.
While there are many books on the romantics, and many books on
Heidegger, there has been no book exploring the connection between
the two. Pol Vandevelde's new study forges this important link.
Vandevelde begins by analyzing two models that have addressed the
interaction between literature and philosophy: early German
romanticism (especially Schlegel and Novalis), and Heidegger's work
with poetry in the 1930s. Both models offer an alternative to the
paradigm of mimesis, as exemplified by Aristotle's and Plato's
discussion of poetry, and both German romanticism and Heidegger owe
a deep debt to Plato. The study goes on to defend the view that
Heidegger was influenced by romanticism. The author's project is
thus both historical, showing the specificity of the romantic and
Heideggerean works, and systematic, defending aspects of their
alternative mode of thinking while also pointing to their
weaknesses.
Ethics, Aesthetics and the Historical Dimension of Language
collects together Gadamer's most important untranslated writings on
ethics, aesthetics and language. With a substantial introduction by
the editors exploring Gadamer's ethical project and providing an
overview of his aesthetic work, this book collects Gadamer's
writings on ancient ethics, including the moral philosophy of
Aristotle, and on practical philosophy (first section). In the
second section, Gadamer's writings on art are collected, including
his examination of poetry, opera and painting among other art
forms. The third section comprises Gadamer's essays on language in
its historical dimension. This important collection is a useful
resource for scholars in philosophy, studying hermeneutics,
continental, 20th-century and German philosophy.
Hermeneutics between History and Philosophy collects together
Gadamer's remaining important untranslated writings on the problem
of history and the major philosophical traditions of the 20th
century from the standpoint of hermeneutics. In these writings,
Gadamer examines important thinkers such as Husserl, Heidegger,
Sartre, Bourdieu and Habermas and their ongoing legacies. This
volume includes a preface by the editors and translators,
presenting the structure of the volume, and a substantial
introduction situating Gadamer's particular project and examining
the place of hermeneutics in relation to the disciplines of history
and philosophy in the 20th century. The translation is followed by
a glossary of German terms and Greek and Latin expressions, as well
as a bibliography of all the works cited and alluded to by Gadamer.
Together, the essays and critical apparatus provide an overarching
account of Gadamer's understanding of human life as embedded within
history.
Bringing together leading scholars from across the world, this is a
comprehensive survey of the latest phenomenological research into
the perennial philosophical problem of truth. Starting with an
historical introduction chronicling the variations on truth at play
in the Phenomenological tradition, the book explores how Husserls
methodology equips us with the tools to thoroughly explore notions
of truth, reality and knowledge. From these foundations, the book
goes on to explore and extend the range of approaches that
contemporary phenomenological research opens up in the face of the
most profound ontological and epistemological questions raised by
the tradition. In the final section, the authors go further still
and explore how phenomenology relates to other variations on truth
offered up by hermeneutic, deconstructive and narrative
approaches.Across the 12 essays collected in this volume,
Variations on Truth explores and maps a comprehensive and rigorous
alternative to mainstream analytic discussions of truth, reality
and understanding.
Ethics, Aesthetics and the Historical Dimension of Language
collects together Gadamer's most important untranslated writings on
ethics, aesthetics and language. With a substantial introduction by
the editors exploring Gadamer's ethical project and providing an
overview of his aesthetic work, this book collects Gadamer's
writings on ancient ethics, including the moral philosophy of
Aristotle, and on practical philosophy (first section). In the
second section, Gadamer's writings on art are collected, including
his examination of poetry, opera and painting among other art
forms. The third section comprises Gadamer’s essays on language
in its historical dimension. This important collection is a useful
resource for scholars in philosophy, studying hermeneutics,
continental, 20th-century and German philosophy.
The Task of the Interpreter offers a new approach to what it means
to interpret a text, and reconciles the possibility of multiple
interpretations with the need to consider the author's intention.
Vandevelde argues that interpretation is both an act and an event:
It is an act in that interpreters, through the statements they
make, implicitly commit themselves to justifying their positions,
if prompted. It is an event in that interpreters are situated in a
cultural and historical framework and come to a text with
questions, concerns, and methods of which they are not fully
conscious. These two aspects make interpretation a negotiation of
meaning. The Task of the Interpreter provides an interdisciplinary
investigation of textual interpretation including biblical
hermeneutics (Gregory the Great's Homilies on Ezekiel), translation
(Homer's The Odyssey), and literary fictions (Grass's Dog Years and
Sabato's On Heroes and Tombs). Vandevelde's philosophical
discussion will appeal to theorists of both continental and
analytical/pragmatic traditions.
Bringing together leading scholars from across the world, this is a
comprehensive survey of the latest phenomenological research into
the perennial philosophical problem of 'truth'. Starting with an
historical introduction chronicling the variations on truth at play
in the Phenomenological tradition, the book explores how Husserl's
methodology equips us with the tools to thoroughly explore notions
of truth, reality and knowledge. From these foundations, the book
goes on to explore and extend the range of approaches that
contemporary phenomenological research opens up in the face of the
most profound ontological and epistemological questions raised by
the tradition. In the final section, the authors go further still
and explore how phenomenology relates to other variations on truth
offered up by hermeneutic, deconstructive and narrative approaches.
Across the 12 essays collected in this volume, Variations on Truth
explores and maps a comprehensive and rigorous alternative to
mainstream analytic discussions of truth, reality and
understanding.
"Epistemology, Archaeology, Ethics: Current Investigations of
Husserl's Corpus" presents fifteen original essays by an
international team of expert contributors that together represent a
cross-section of Husserl Studies today. The collection manifests
the extent to which single themes in Husserl's corpus cannot be
isolated, but must be considered in relation to their overlap with
each other.
Many of the accepted views of Husserl's philosophy are currently in
a state of flux, with positions that once seemed incontestable now
finding themselves relegated to the status of one particular school
of thought among several. Among all the new trends and approaches,
this volume offers a representative sample of how Husserlian
research should be conducted given the current state of the corpus.
The book is divided into four parts, each dedicated to an area of
Husserl Studies that is currently gaining prominence: Husserlian
epistemology; his views on intentionality; the archaeology of
constitution; and ethics, a relatively recent field of study in
phenomenology.
Exploring the latest research in Husserl Studies, this collection
presents fifteen new essays on key topics in the field from an
international team of writers. "Epistemology, Archaeology, Ethics:
Current Investigations of Husserl's Corpus" presents fifteen
original essays by an international team of expert contributors
that together represent a cross-section of Husserl Studies today.
The collection manifests the extent to which single themes in
Husserl's corpus cannot be isolated, but must be considered in
relation to their overlap with each other. Many of the accepted
views of Husserl's philosophy are currently in a state of flux,
with positions that once seemed incontestable now finding
themselves relegated to the status of one particular school of
thought among several. Among all the new trends and approaches,
this volume offers a representative sample of how Husserlian
research should be conducted given the current state of the corpus.
The book is divided into four parts, each dedicated to an area of
Husserl Studies that is currently gaining prominence: Husserlian
epistemology; his views on intentionality; the archaeology of
constitution; and, ethics, a relatively recent field of study in
phenomenology.
This volume is the third of Pierre Rousselot's Philosophical Works.
It includes seven essays written between 1908 and 1914, one year
before his death (two were published posthumously: "A Theory of
Concepts by Functional Unity" and "Idealism and Thomism"). These
essays offer a complement to Rousselot's views on epistemology,
which he presented in Intelligence and constitute the core of his
Neo-thomistic philosophy. However, besides making his views more
clear and specific, these essays also go further than what we had
in Intelligence. It is an effort to offer a systematic view on
knowledge as the fusion of the knower and the known. These views go
significantly beyond St Thomas' doctrine and some of them are
rather daring, like Rousselot's notion of an Angel-humanity. The
common thread of these essays is the role of love in knowledge.
Rousselot's expands St. Thomas' view on knowledge on the mode of
nature (per modum naturae) or connaturality and understands love
both as an attitude of the knower, who must be in a certain
disposition toward the object, and a characterization of the
relationship between knower and known. From the introduction by Pol
Vandevelde.
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