Contemporary Hermeneutics. Hermeneutics as Method, Philosophy and Critique

Title page
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Copyright page
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Contents
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Preface
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Introduction
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I. Hermeneutical Theory
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Introduction
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1. The origin of hermeneutics
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2. Romanticist heremenutics
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3. Historical hermeneutics
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4. Dilthey and the Critique of Historical Reason
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5. Conclusions: objectivist remnants in classical hermeneutical theory
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1. The metascience of hermeneutics
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2. Methodological implications
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3. The practice of interpretation
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4. Conclusions: Verstehen as a method of the social sciences?
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Contents of Reading I
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The place of the hermeneutical problematic in contemporary consciousness
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Objectivations of Mind
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Representational function and meaning of expression
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Interpretation as a triadic process
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Inversion of the creative and transposition into the subjectivity of an Other
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Guidelines for interpretation the canon of the hermeneutical autonomy of the object
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The canon of the coherence of meaning (principle of totality)
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Analogy and further development
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Affinity with the subject-matter and the 'upon-which' of inquiry
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The question whether objectivity of historical phenomena is attainable
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The role of the historian's values value-oriented interpretation
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Answer to the historical question posed
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The meaning of an historical phenomenon and present significance
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Dialogue and monologue
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Historical interpretation and eschatological meaning-inference
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The threat to objectivity
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On theological hermeneutics and the 'demythologization' of the Kerygma
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The recent turn towards the historicality of understanding
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Prejudice as the condition of understanding
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The existential foundation of the hermeneutical circle
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The question concerning the correctness of understanding
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Historical understanding as mediation of past and present
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Call for an applicative use of interpretation
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Only justified in normatively oriented interpretation
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The canon of the hermeneutical correspondence of meaning (meaning-adequacy in understanding)
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The character as a product of historical forms of life leads to a problematic of a higher order
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Technical-morphological interpretation in view of the problems of formation to be solved
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Meaning-structure and style as products of the autonomy of mental powers
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Notes
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II. Heremeneutic philosophy
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Introduction
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3. Heidegger's existential-ontological hermeneutic
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1. Hermeneutic philosophy as a transcendental inquiry
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4. Bultmann's theological hermeneutic
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1. The historicity of understanding
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2. Understanding as a dialogical process
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3. The linguisticality of understanding
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6. Conclusions: hermeneutic philosophy and hermeneutical theory
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1. The universal aspect of hermeneutic philosophy
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2. The critique of method
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Reading 2: Hans-Georg Gadamer - The universality of the hermeneutical problem
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Notes
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III. Critical hermeneutics
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Introduction
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7. Apel: critical hermeneutics in the form of an anthropology of knowledge
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1. Differences with Gadamer
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2. The transformation of philosophy
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8. Habermas's program of a dialectical-hermenutical social science
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1. The 'hermeneutic dispute' between Habermas and Gadamer
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2. Towards a theory of communicative competence
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9. Materialist hermeneutics
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1. Lorenzer 'materialist' hermeneutics and psychoanalysis
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2. Sandkuhler's 'materialistic hermeneutics'
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10. Conclusions: hermeneutics and Marxism
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Hermeneutic(al) interpretation and Marxism
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I.
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II.
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III.
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Notes
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IV. Summary and new perspectives
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Introduction
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1. The conflict of interpretations
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2. Bultmann and Levi-Strauss
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3. Phenomenology and hermeneutics
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4. Structuralism and hermeneutics
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5. Psychoanalysis and interpretation
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1. What is a text?
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2. Meaningful action considered as a text
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13. Conclusions: Ricoeur and the hermeneutic dispute
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1. The origin of hermeneutics
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2. Grafting hermeneutics onto phenomenology
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3. The level of semantics
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4. The level of reflection
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5. The existential level
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Notes
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Conclusion
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Part I
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Part II
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Part III
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Part IV
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Glossary
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Bibliography
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Name index
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Subject index
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