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Author : William F. Nolan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Science fiction, American
ISBN : 0671779281
Author : Nigel Suckling
Publisher : Collins & Brown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2000-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 1850283362
AMENDED ENTRY. Previously announced as SPACE STATIONS, by Robin Kerrod, weekly list no. 8, dated 24th February, 1995
Author : Kemal Ataman
Publisher : CRVP
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Hermeneutics
ISBN : 9781565182523
Author : Richard J. Bernstein
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-09-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780812205503
Drawing freely and expertly from Continental and analytic traditions, Richard Bernstein examines a number of debates and controversies exemplified in the works of Gadamer, Habermas, Rorty, and Arendt. He argues that a "new conversation" is emerging about human rationality—a new understanding that emphasizes its practical character and has important ramifications both for thought and action.
Author : Alfredo Ferrarin,Dermot Moran,Elisa Magrì,Danilo Manca
Publisher : Springer
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030175467
This volume articulates and develops new research questions and original insights regarding the philosophical dialogue between Hegel’s philosophy, his heritage, and contemporary phenomenology, including, among others, Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Ricoeur. The collection discusses methodological questions concerning the relevance of Hegel’s philosophy for contemporary phenomenology, addressing core issues revolving around the key concepts of history, being, science, subjectivity, and dialectic. The volume fills a gap in historiography, expanding the knowledge of the impact of Hegel's philosophy on contemporary philosophy and raising new questions on the transformation of transcendental philosophy in post-Kantian philosophy. The contributions gathered in this volume shed new light on issues related to the problem of scientific method in philosophy, on the philosophy of history, as well as on the dimension of subjectivity. By providing critical insights into Hegel’s philosophy and contemporary phenomenology, the book opens up new research perspectives recommended to philosophers and scholars of different traditions, especially classical German philosophy, phenomenology, and history of Western philosophy.
Author : Robert S. Corrington
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2000-11-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781139428552
The concern of this work is with developing an alternative to standard categories in theology and philosophy, especially in terms of how they deal with nature. Avoiding the polemics of much contemporary reflection on nature, it shows how we are connected to nature through the unconscious and its unique way of reading and processing signs. Spinoza's key distinction between natura naturans and natura naturata serves as the governing framework for the treatise. Suggestions are made for a post-Christian way of understanding religion. Robert S. Corrington's work represents the first sustained attempt to bring together the fields of semiotics, depth-psychology, pragmaticism, and a post-Monotheistic theology of nature. Its focus is on how signification functions in human and non-human orders of infinite nature. Our connection with the infinite is described in detail, especially as it relates to the use of sign systems.
Author : Rachel Nicholls
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004163744
This book explores the usefulness of the concept of "Wirkungsgeschichte" for New Testament interpretation by analysing Mt 14: 22-33 in the light of six works of art and a selection of nineteenth century theological texts.
Author : Mark G. Brett
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004103171
This international collection of twenty-one essays examines the construction of ethnic identities both within the Bible itself and in biblical interpretation. The major themes of the volumes are: ethnocentrism, indigeneity, ethics and the politics of identity. This publication has also been published in paperback, please click here for details.
Author : Andrew Judd
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2024-01-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781003831457
This book puts a creative new reading of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics and literary genre theory to work on the problem of Scripture. Reading texts as Scripture brings two hermeneutical assumptions into tension: that the text will continually say something new and relevant to the present situation, and that the text has stability and authority over readers. Given how contested the Bible’s meaning is, how is it possible to ‘read Scripture’ as authoritative and relevant? Rather than anchor meaning in author, text or reader, Gadamer’s phenomenological model of hermeneutical experience as Spiel (‘play’) offers a dynamic, intersubjective account of how understanding happens, avoiding the dead end of the subjective–objective dichotomy. Modern genre theory addresses some of the criticisms of Gadamer, accounting for the different roles played by readers in different genres using the new term Lesespiel (‘reading game’). This is tested in three case studies of contested texts: the recontextualization of psalms in the book of Acts, the use of Hagar’s story (Genesis 16) in nineteenth-century debates over slavery and the troubling reception history of the rape and murder in Gibeah (Judges 19). In each study, the application of ancient text to contemporary situation is neither arbitrary, nor slavishly bound to tradition, but playful.
Author : Dwight McBride
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2002-02-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780814764169
Even the most cursory review of black literary production during the nineteenth century indicates that its primary concerns were the issues of slavery, racial subjugation, abolitionist politics and liberation. How did the writers of these narratives "bear witness" to the experiences they describe? At a time when a hegemonic discourse on these subjects already existed, what did it mean to "tell the truth" about slavery? Impossible Witnesses explores these questions through a study of fiction, poetry, essays, and slave narratives from the abolitionist era. Linking the racialized discourses of slavery and Romanticism, it boldly calls for a reconfiguration of U.S. and British Romanticism that places slavery at its center. Impossible Witnesses addresses some of the major literary figures and representations of slavery in light of discourses on natural rights and law, offers an account of Foucauldian discourse analysis as it applies to the problem of "bearing witness," and analyzes specific narratives such as "Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass," and "The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano." A work of great depth and originality, Impossible Witnesses renders traditional interpretations of Romanticism impossible and places Dwight A. McBride at the forefront of studies in race and literature.
Author : Adrian Snodgrass,Richard Coyne
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781134222636
Drawing on cultural theory, phenomenology and concepts from Asian art and philosophy, this book reflects on the role of interpretation in the act of architectural creation, bringing an intellectual and scholarly dimension to real-world architectural design practice. For practising architects as well as academic researchers, these essays consider interpretation from three theoretical standpoints or themes: play, edification and otherness. Focusing on these, the book draws together strands of thought informed by the diverse reflections of hermeneutical scholarship, the uses of digital media and studio teaching and practice.
Author : Ronald Beiner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2014-08-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107069954
What is political philosophy? Ronald Beiner makes the case that it is centrally defined by supremely ambitious reflection on the ends of life. We pursue this reflection by exposing ourselves to, and participating in, a perennial dialogue among epic theorists who articulate grand visions of what constitutes the authentic good for human beings. Who are these epic theorists, and what are their strengths and weaknesses? Beiner selects a dozen leading candidates: Arendt, Oakeshott, Strauss, Löwith, Voegelin, Weil, Gadamer, Habermas, Foucault, MacIntyre, Rawls, and Rorty. In each case, he shows both why the political philosophies continue to be intellectually compelling and why they are problematic or can be challenged in various ways. In this sense, Political Philosophy attempts to draw up a balance sheet for political philosophy in the twentieth century, by identifying a canon of towering contributions and reviewing the extent to which they fulfil their intellectual aspirations.
Author : Lawrence Kennedy Schmidt,Lawrence Schmidt
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0810112574
Specter of Relativism addresses the timely topic of relativism from the perspective of Gadamer's hermeneutics. This collection of essays explores several of the key issues in contemporary philosophy--the nature of truth, the model of conversation, and the possibility of an ethics in postmodern conditions--in the context of the work of Gadamer. Although centered on Gadamer and including the first English translation of one of his essays, the volume does not narrowly define or defend the approach of philosophical hermeneutics; the contributors present a broad range of views, in some cases championing a Gadamerian perspective, in others challenging it.
Author : Hans-Georg Gadamer
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 665 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781780936581
Truth and Method is a landmark work of 20th century thought which established Hans Georg-Gadamer as one of the most important philosophical voices of the 20th Century. In this book, Gadamer established the field of 'philosophical hermeneutics': exploring the nature of knowledge, the book rejected traditional quasi-scientific approaches to establishing cultural meaning that were prevalent after the war. In arguing the 'truth' and 'method' acted in opposition to each other, Gadamer examined the ways in which historical and cultural circumstance fundamentally influenced human understanding. It was an approach that would become hugely influential in the humanities and social sciences and remains so to this day in the work of Jurgen Habermas and many others.
Author : Sara Heinämaa,Mirja Hartimo,Timo Miettinen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135138790
The aim of this volume is to offer an updated account of the transcendental character of phenomenology. The main question concerns the sense and relevance of transcendental philosophy today: What can such philosophy contribute to contemporary inquiries and debates after the many reasoned attacks against its idealistic, aprioristic, absolutist and universalistic tendencies—voiced most vigorously by late 20th century postmodern thinkers—as well as attacks against its apparently circular arguments and suspicious metaphysics launched by many analytic philosophers? Contributors also aim to clarify the relations of transcendental phenomenology to other post-Kantian philosophies, most importantly to pragmatism and Wittgenstein’s philosophical investigations. Finally, the volume offers a set of reflections on the meaning of post-transcendental phenomenology.
