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Author Grondin, Jean, author.

Title Introduction to philosophical hermeneutics / Jean Grondin ; foreword by Hans-Georg Gadamer ; translated by Joel Weinsheimer
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [1994]
©1994

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 231 pages)
Series Yale studies in hermeneutics
Yale studies in hermeneutics.
Contents Foreword / Hans-Georg Gadamer -- I. On the Prehistory of Hermeneutics. 1. Linguistic Delimitations. 2. The Semantics of hermeneuein. 3. Allegorical Interpretation of Myth. 4. Philo: The Universality of Allegory. 5. Origen: The Universality of Typology. 6. Augustine: The Universality of the Inner Logos. 7. Luther: Sola Scriptura? 8. Flacius: The Universality of the Grammatical -- II. Hermeneutics between Grammar and Critique. 1. Dannhauer: True Interpretation and Interpretive Truth. 2. Chladenius: The Universality of the Pedagogical. 3. Meier: The Universality of Signs. 4. Pietism: The Universality of the Affective -- III. Romantic Hermeneutics and Schleiermacher. 1. The Post-Kantian Transition from the Enlightenment to Romanticism: Ast and Schlegel. 2. Schleiermacher's Universalization of Misunderstanding. 3. Limiting Hermeneutics to Psychology? 4. The Dialectical Ground of Hermeneutics -- IV. The Problems of Historicism. 1. Bockh and the Dawn of Historical Awareness. 2. Droysen's Universal Historiology: Understanding as Research in the Moral World. 3. Dilthey: On the Way to Hermeneutics -- V. Heidegger: Hermeneutics as the Interpretation of Existence. 1. The "Fore" of Fore-Understanding. 2. Its Transparency in Interpretation. 3. The Idea of a Philosophical Hermeneutics of Facticity. 4. The Derivative Status of Statements? 5. Hermeneutics after the Turn -- VI. Gadamer and the Universe of Hermeneutics. 1. Back to the Human Sciences. 2. The Overcoming of Historicist Hermeneutics. 3. Effective History as Principle. 4. Understanding as Questioning and Therefore Application. 5. Language as Dialogue. 6. The Universality of the Hermeneutic Universe -- VII. Hermeneutics in Dialogue. 1. Betti's Epistemological Return to the Inner Spirit. 2. Habermas's Critique of Hermeneutics in the Name of Agreement. 3. The Deconstructive Challenge to Hermeneutics
Summary In this historical introduction to philosophical hermeneutics, Jean Grondin discusses the major figures from Philo to Habermas, analyzes conflicts between various interpretive schools, and provides a critique of Gadamer's Truth and Method which, serves as a model for Grondin's approach. --From publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-228) and index
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Subject Hermeneutics -- History
Interpretation (Philosophy) -- History
PHILOSOPHY -- Epistemology.
Interpretation (Philosophy)
Hermeneutics
Hermeneutiek.
Herméneutique -- Histoire.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780300156904
0300156901
Other Titles Einführung in die philosophische Hermeneutik. English