Introduction to Philosophical Hermeneutics

✍ Scribed by Ladislav Tkácik

• Publisher: Peter Lang
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 120
• Series: Uni Slovakia
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

To be confronted with a text can lead us to open our own living world, to its expansion and saturation with something new or even with something else, something unpredictable. What then makes a human a human? Can philosophical hermeneutics say anything about that? It can! «Language is the real centre of a human being… The human is a real, as Aristotle used to say, being who has language» (Hans-Georg Gadamer). What makes a human a human is the fact that internal reflection is performed behind his voice. This is the most original topic of philosophical hermeneutics.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
1. Preface
2. Hermeneutics as a Term
3. The Oldest History of Hermeneutic Thinking
4. Medieval Hermeneutic Thinking
5. Hermeneutics and Protestantism
6. Hermeneutic Thinking in Modern Times
7. Hermeneutics of Romanticism
8. Hermeneutics and Historicism
9. 20th Century Hermeneutic Thinking
10. Hermeneutics and Postmodernism
11. The World of Language and Discourse
12. The World of Text
Bibliography and Recommended Literature