Although the scientification of society continues to advance, science and the lifeworld still exist with and against each other as different modes of experience. This book demonstrates their structural differences by discussing numerous examples. The studies are guided by concep…
In this historical introduction to philosophical hermeneutics, Jean Grondin discusses the major figures from Philo to Habermas, analyzes conflicts between various interpretive schools, and provides a critique of Gadamer's Truth and Method which, serves as a model for Grondin's a…
In this historical introduction to philosophical hermeneutics, Jean Grondin discusses the major figures from Philo to Habermas, analyzes conflicts between various interpretive schools, and provides a critique of Gadamer's Truth and Method which, serves as a model for Grondin's a…
"Interrogating the Tradition interprets figures in the history of Western thought from a broad, "continental" perspective. Divided into three major sections - hermeneutical thought, Heidegger and the Greeks, and the question of nature in German Idealism - the question of origins…
Une longue réflexion sur la mémoire et ses applications en trois parties : 1. Phénoménologie de la mémoire - 2. Epistémiologie de l'histoire - 3. Herméneutique de l'histoire, de la condition humaine. Le contenu, d'une érudition prononcée, peut se résumer au constat suivant : l'a…
In 'The Perils of Uglytown', Harry Berger, Jr., considers a variety of texts and images ranging from those of Thucydides and Plato to those of Shakespeare and Rembrandt. The Introduction explains the key concept of the study, structural misanthropology, a variant on Claude Levi-…
