Gadamer and the Question of Understanding (eBook)

Between Heidegger and Derrida

Adrian Costache (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
166 Seiten
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-0-7391-8502-5 (ISBN)

Infos

This book retraces the development of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics in relation with (and against) Martin Heidegger’s early ontological hermeneutics as well as his later thought and subjects it to a critical examination from the point of view of Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction.

---

Hans-Georg Gadamer is depicted as a paradoxical figure in the literature. When Gadamer's work is approached by itself, outside the history of hermeneutics, he is generally presented as the disciple of Martin Heidegger, whose main theoretical contribution lies in having transposed his ontological hermeneutics into the sphere of the human sciences. Usually the master-student relation ends with a break between the two brought about by the student's desire to become herself a master. In Gadamer and Heidegger's case, scholarship has always excluded the possibility of such a symbolic parricide. However, when Gadamer's work is approached from the history of hermeneutics, he, not Heidegger, is revered as the central figure of hermeneutic theory in the twentieth century, and scholars perceive the works of the lattertogether with those of his immediate forerunners Friedrich Schleiermacher and Wilhelm Diltheyas mere preambles to the great hermeneutic theory proposed by Truth and Method, and the works of those following him as footnotes to it. Gadamer and the Question of Understanding: Between Heidegger and Derrida dismantles this paradox by showing, on the one hand, that Gadamer's translation of Heidegger involved, as he himself says, a series of ';essential alterations' to the original which make philosophical hermeneutics a more coherent and better articulated hermeneutic theory, one offering a more faithful description of the phenomenon of understanding than Heidegger's. And, on the other hand, by taking the dossier of the famous encounter between Gadamer and Derrida as its cue, Adrian Costache demonstrates that in light of Derrida's deconstruction, every step Gadamer takes forward from Heidegger as well as from Schleiermacher and Diltheyhowever necessary--is problematic in itself.The insights in this book will be valuable to students and scholars interested in modern and contemporary European philosophy, especially those focusing on philosophical hermeneutics and deconstruction, as well as those working in social sciences that have incorporated a hermeneutic approach to their investigations, such as pedagogy, sociology, psychotherapy, law, and nursing.

Autor

Adrian Costache is assistant professor at Babeș-Bolyai University.

Inhalt

IntroductionPart I. Translating HeideggerChapter 1. Philosophical Hermeneutics as a “Transposition of Heidegger”Chapter 2. Understanding as a Historically Effected EventFirst Preliminary Conclusion: Gadamer the Modest DisciplePart II. Tradutore TradittoreChapter 3. The Silent Turn Against HeideggerChapter 4. Paving the Way to the later HeideggerSecond Preliminary Conclusion: The Student’s Turn Against the MasterPart III: The Problems with Gadamer’s TranslationChapter 5. The Dossier of the Gadamer-Derrida Encounter Revisited Chapter 6. Gadamer Critic of Derrida. Derrida Critic of GadamerFinal Conclusion: To the Thresholds of Hermeneutic Theory

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 24.2.2016
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
• Schlagworte: Alterity • Continental Philosophy • Deconstruction • Dilthey • Hans-Georg Gadamer • hermeneutics • Intellectual history • Schleiermacher • Truth and Method
• ISBN-10: 0-7391-8502-0 / 0739185020
• ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-8502-5 / 9780739185025