Hermeneutics and Truth
Northwestern University Press, 1994
Paper: 978-0-8101-1118-9 | Cloth: 978-0-8101-1143-1 | eISBN: 978-0-8101-6318-8
Library of Congress Classification B3248.G34H47 1994
Dewey Decimal Classification 121.68
Paper: 978-0-8101-1118-9 | Cloth: 978-0-8101-1143-1 | eISBN: 978-0-8101-6318-8
Library of Congress Classification B3248.G34H47 1994
Dewey Decimal Classification 121.68
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
The claim that all human thought involves "interpretation," that all human thought is in some way relative to a contingent context of cognitive, theoretical, practical, and aesthetic considerations, has become widely accepted, but what we understand by "truth" and how we should best pursue it are questions raised with renewed force once a hermeneutical starting point has been embraced. Brice R. Wachterhauser's collection Hermeneutics and Truth is an attempt to contribute to this conversation.
No thinkers have wrestled with the issue of truth and interpretation in more illuminating ways for the Continental tradition of philosophy than Heidegger and Gadamer. Hermeneutics and Truth is a dual focus on Heidegger and Gadamer, but it concentrates primarily on Gadamer's efforts to think through the issue of truth for hermeneutics and only secondarily on Heidegger's thought on this issue.
No thinkers have wrestled with the issue of truth and interpretation in more illuminating ways for the Continental tradition of philosophy than Heidegger and Gadamer. Hermeneutics and Truth is a dual focus on Heidegger and Gadamer, but it concentrates primarily on Gadamer's efforts to think through the issue of truth for hermeneutics and only secondarily on Heidegger's thought on this issue.
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