The Cambridge Companion to Gadamer

458 Pages·2021·3.139 MB·English

by  Robert Dostal

the cambridge companion to
GADAMER
SECONDEDITION
Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900–2002) is widely recognized as
the leading exponent of philosophical hermeneutics. The
essays in this volume examine Gadamer’s biography, the
core of hermeneutical theory, and the significance of his
work for ethics, aesthetics, the social sciences, and
theology. There is full consideration of Gadamer’s
appropriation of Hegel, Heidegger and the Greeks, as well
as his relation to modernity, critical theory and
poststructuralism. This revised edition includes several
new chapters on aspects of Gadamer’s work, as well as
updated chapters from the first edition and the most
comprehensive bibliography of works by and about
GadameravailableintheEnglishlanguage.
robertj.dostalisRufusM.JonesProfessorofPhilosophy
at Bryn Mawr College. He is author of Gadamer’s
Hermeneutics: Between Phenomenology and Dialectic
(forthcoming) and editor of Phenomenology on Kant,
German Idealism, Hermeneutics, and Logic (with O.K.
Wiegand,L.Embree,J.KockelmansandJ.Mohanty,2000).
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GADAMER
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BrynMawrCollege
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Contents
ListofContributors pagevii
ListofAbbreviations ix
Introduction 1
robert j. dostal
1 Gadamer(1900–2002):TheManandHisWork 15
robert j. dostal
2 Gadamer’sBasicUnderstandingofUnderstanding 44
jean grondin
3 GettingItRight:Relativism,Realism,andTruth 62
brice wachterhauser
4 PhilosophicalHermeneutics,Language,
andtheCommunicativeEvent 93
james risser
5 PhronesisandSolidarity:DemocraticPolitics 117
darren walhof
6 Gadamer’sHerderianCritics 139
georgia warnke
7 GadamerontheHumanSciences 163
charles taylor
8 ArtExperienceandItsTransformativePotential
inGadamer’sHermeneutics 182
beata sirowy
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9 LyricasParadigm:HegelandtheSpeculativeInstance
ofPoetryinGadamer’sHermeneutics 213
j. m. baker jr.
10 Gadamer,theHermeneuticRevolution,andTheology 242
fred lawrence
11 HermeneuticsinPractice:GadameronAncient
Philosophy 282
catherine h. zuckert
12 Gadamer’sHegel 309
robert b. pippin
13 Gadamer’sRelationtoHeideggerandtoPhenomenology 334
robert j. dostal
14 TheConstellationofHermeneutics,CriticalTheory,
andDeconstruction 355
richard j. bernstein
15 HermeneuticsinaBroaderHorizon:Gadamer,Rorty,
Davidson 374
niall keane
Bibliography 406
Index 440
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Contributors
J. M. Baker Jr. is Professor Emeritus at the University of the Arts,
Philadelphia.
Richard J. Bernstein is the Vera List Professor of Philosophy at the
NewSchoolforSocialResearch.
RobertJ.DostalistheRufusM.JonesProfessorofPhilosophyatBryn
MawrCollege.
Jean Grondin is Professor of Philosophy at the Université de
Montréal.
NiallKeaneisVisitingResearcherattheDepartmentofPhilosophy,
Sociology,Education,andAppliedPsychologyattheUniversityof
Padua,Italy.
FredLawrenceisProfessorofTheologyatBostonCollege.
Robert B. Pippin is the Raymond W. and Martha Hilpert Gruner
Distinguished Service Professor in the Committee on Social
Thought, the Department of Philosophy, and the College at the
UniversityofChicago.
JamesRisserisProfessorofPhilosophyatSeattleUniversity.
Beata Sirowy is Senior Research Fellow at the Faculty of Landscape
andSociety,theNorwegianUniversityofLifeSciences.
Charles Taylor is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at McGill
University.
Brice Wachterhauser is Professor of Philosophy at St. Joseph’s
University,Philadelphia.
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DarrenWalhofisProfessorofPoliticalScienceatGrandValleyState
University.
Georgia Warnke is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and
Director of the Center for Ideas and Society at the University of
California,Riverside.
CatherineH.ZuckertistheNancyReevesDreuxProfessorEmeritus
ofPoliticalScienceattheUniversityofNotreDame.
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Abbreviations
AbbreviationforGadamer’sGesammelteWerke:GW
AbbreviationsforGadamer’sEnglishworks:
BK TheBeginningofKnowledge
BP TheBeginningofPhilosophy
DD DialogueandDialectic
EH TheEnigmaofHealth
EPH GadameronEducation,Poetry,andHistory
FS “FriendshipandSolidarity”
GDE DialogueandDeconstruction:TheGadamer–Derrida
Encounter
GR TheGadamerReader
HD Hegel’sDialectic
HW Heidegger’sWays
IG TheIdeaoftheGoodinPlatonic–AristotelianPhilosophy
LPD LiteratureandPhilosophyinDialogue
PA PhilosophicalApprenticeships
PDE Plato’sDialecticalEthics
PH PhilosophicalHermeneutics
PL “PhilosophyandLiterature”
PT PraiseofTheory
RAS ReasonintheAgeofScience
RB TheRelevanceoftheBeautiful
RPJ “ReflectionsonMyPhilosophicalJourney”
TM TruthandMethod
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