The Hermeneutics of Postmodernity Figures and Themes

Does the end of modernism signal the onslaught of some form of anarchistic nihilism, as some today proclaim? Or can the traditional guiding notions of philosophy—in particular, meaning, truth, and reality—be revitalized in a nonfoundational, postmetaphysical, decidedly postmodern way? The figures ab...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Madison, Gary Brent (-)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington : Indiana University Press 1988
1988.
Series:Studies in phenomenology and existential philosophy
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009598324706719
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Figures: A critique of Hirsch's Validity
  • Method of interpretation
  • Husserl's hermeneutical contribution to the explanation-understanding debate
  • Merleau-Ponty and postmodernity
  • Ricoeur's philosophy of metaphor
  • Ricoeur and the hermeneutics of the subject
  • Beyond seriousness and frivolity: a Gadamerian response to deconstruction
  • pt. 2. Themes: Metaphysics as myth
  • Dialogue on metaphor
  • The hermeneutics of (inter)subjectivity, or: the mind-body problem deconstructed
  • The philosophic centrality of the imagination: a postmodern approach.