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HISTORY OF HERMENEUTICS
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| By: |
Maurizio Ferraris, Luca Somigli (Trans) |
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Hardback |
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£39.95 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0391039318 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780391039315 |
| Publisher: |
HUMANITIES PRESS INTERNATIONAL INC.,U.S. |
| Pub. date: |
18 July, 1996 |
| Series: |
Contemporary Studies in Philosophy & the Human Sciences |
| Pages: |
464 |
| Translated from: |
Italian |
| Synopsis: |
First published in 1988, this book constitutes a comprehensive reconstruction of the historical development of hermeneutics. Its translation is augmented by a theoretical afterword especially written by the author for this English-language edition. Not only does the author discuss thinkers, such as Plato, Vico, Dilthey, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Gadamer, Habermas and Derrida, but he also considers the contributions of figures that fall outside the contemporary canon of "maitres a penser", from the philosophers of the Reformation, to the flourishing of biblical interpretation in the German Englightenment, to contemporary theoreticians, such as Emilio Betti. The first two chapters trace the history of the art of interpretation, from its origin in Greece as a specialized technique for the transmission of divine messages on the part of the poets and oracles, to the 19th century, a time that was characterized by a new awareness of the problem of tradition and by the influence of positivism on the theory of interpretation.In the following three chapters, Ferraris examines the universalization of the domain of interpretation with Heideggger, the development of Heideggerian philosophical hermeneutics with Gadamer and Derrida, and the relation between hermeneutics and epistemology on one hand, and the human sciences on the other. The book should be of interest to both specialists and general readers. Its analysis should make it a useful work for philosophers, and for scholars and students in literary studies, cultural studies, history and the social sciences. At the same time, its presentation of the historical unfolding of hermeneutics should make it especially suitable for use as a textbook in introductory and advanced classes. |
| Illustrations: |
bibliography, index |
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US |
| Imprint: |
Humanities Press International Inc |
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