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Gadamer’s Hermeneutics

Between Phenomenology and Dialectic

By: Robert J. Dostal

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Gadamer’s Hermeneutics

Between Phenomenology and Dialectic

By: Robert J. Dostal

In Gadamer’s Hermeneutics Robert J. Dostal provides a comprehensive and critical account of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s hermeneutical philosophy, arguing that Gadamer’s enterprise is rooted in the thesis that “being that can be understood is language.” He defends Gadamer against charges of linguistic idealism and emphasizes language’s relationship to understanding, though he criticizes Gadamer for too often ignoring the role of the prelinguistic in our experience. Dostal goes on to explain the concept of the "inner word" for Gadamer’s account of language. The book situates Gadamer’s hermeneutics in three important ways: in relation to the contestability of the legacy of the Enlightenment project; in relation to the work of his mentor, Martin Heidegger; and in relation to Gadamer’s reading of Plato and Aristotle. Dostal explores both Gadamer’s claim on the Enlightenment and his ambivalence toward it. He considers Gadamer’s dependence on Heidegger’s accomplishment while pointing out the ways in which Gadamer charted his own course, rejecting his teacher’s reading of Plato and his antihumanism. Dostal points out notable differences in the philosophers’ politics as well. Finally, Dostal mediates between Gadamer’s hermeneutics and what might be called philological hermeneutics. His analysis defends the civic humanism that is the culmination of the philosopher’s hermeneutics, a humanism defined by moral education, common sense, judgment, and taste. Supporters and critics of Gadamer’s philosophy will learn much from this major achievement.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810144522

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9780810144521

Playful Wisdom

Reimagining the Sacred in American Literature, from Walden to Gilead

By: Robert Leigh Davis

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Playful Wisdom

Reimagining the Sacred in American Literature, from Walden to Gilead

By: Robert Leigh Davis

Playful Wisdom examines how Henry David Thoreau’s thinking about religious “play” created a theological legacy in American literature—one that includes Emily Dickinson, Jack Kerouac, Thomas Merton, Annie Dillard, and Marilynne Robinson. Although these writers differ in many ways, they share with Thoreau an improvisational “looseness” or “mobility” in their thinking about the sacred, a sense that religious experience unsettles fixed belief and alters the very shape of the perceiving self. From this perspective, Robert Leigh Davis argues, unswerving orthodoxy is not as crucial to a life of faith as a light-handed responsiveness of spirit that constantly revises fixed assumptions in light of new experiences. Dickinson describes this responsiveness as “nimble believing” and Thoreau calls it “holy play.” Scholars of literature, religion, and philosophy will find this book particularly useful.

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253

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Rowman & Littlefield

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1793626294

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9781793626295

The Persistence of Subjectivity

On the Kantian Aftermath

By: Robert B. Pippin

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The Persistence of Subjectivity

On the Kantian Aftermath

By: Robert B. Pippin

The Persistence of Subjectivity examines several approaches to, and critiques of, the core notion in the self-understanding and legitimation of the modern, 'bourgeois' form of life: the free, reflective, self-determining subject. Since it is a relatively recent historical development that human beings think of themselves as individual centers of agency, and that one's entitlement to such a self-determining life is absolutely valuable, the issue at stake also involves the question of the historical location of philosophy. What might it mean to take seriously Hegel's claim that philosophical reflection is always reflection on the historical 'actuality' of its own age? Discussing Heidegger, Gadamer, Adorno, Leo Strauss, Manfred Frank, and John McDowell, Robert Pippin attempts to understand how subjectivity arises in contemporary institutional practices such as medicine, as well as in other contexts such as modernism in the visual arts and in the novels of Marcel Proust.

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388

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Cambridge University Press

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1139446355

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9781139446358

Drugs, Enzymes and Receptors of the Renin-Angiotensin System

Celebrating a Century of Discovery

By: Ahsan Husain,Robert M. Graham

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Drugs, Enzymes and Receptors of the Renin-Angiotensin System

Celebrating a Century of Discovery

By: Ahsan Husain,Robert M. Graham

Since 1898, when Tigerstadt and Bergman first extracted renin from rabbit kidney, the reninrugs, Enzymes and Receptors of the Renin is designed to highlight molecular and clinical approaches to understanding the renin Chapter topics have been specifically chosen to cover selected contemporary, controversial and unresolved issues. A novel and uni

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420

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CRC Press

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1482284081

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9781482284089

The Eternal Darkness

A Personal History of Deep-Sea Exploration

By: Robert D. Ballard,Will Hively

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The Eternal Darkness

A Personal History of Deep-Sea Exploration

By: Robert D. Ballard,Will Hively

Featuring a new preface by the author.

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404

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Princeton University Press

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0691175624

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9780691175621

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The Eternal Darkness

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