Unquiet Understanding: Gadamer's Philosophical HermeneuticsIn Unquiet Understanding, Nicholas Davey reappropriates the radical content of Gadamer s philosophical hermeneutics to reveal that it offers a powerful critique of Nietzsche s philosophy of language, nihilism, and post-structuralist deconstructions of meaning. By critically engaging with the practical and ethical implications of philosophical hermeneutics, Davey asserts that the importance of philosophical hermeneutics resides in a formidable double claim that strikes at the heart of both traditional philosophy and deconstruction. He shows that to seek control over the fluid nature of linguistic meaning with rigid conceptual regimes or to despair of such fluidity because it frustrates hope for stable meaning is to succumb to nihilism. Both are indicative of a failure to appreciate that understanding depends upon the vital instability of the word. This innovative book demonstrates that Gadamer s thought merits a radical reappraisal and that it is more provocative than commonly supposed. |
Contents
Philosophical Hermeneutics Navigating the Approaches | 1 |
ELEVEN THESES ON PHILOSOPHICAL HERMENEUTICS | 3 |
Hermeneutical Understanding Requires Difference | 5 |
Philosophical Hermeneutics Entails a Commitment to Hermeneutic Realism | 6 |
Philosophical Hermeneutics Seeks Otherness within the Historical | 7 |
Philosophical Hermeneutics Reinterprets Transcendence | 8 |
Philosophical Hermeneutics Entails an Ethical Disposition | 9 |
Hermeneutic Understanding Redeems the Negativity of Its Constituting Differential | 12 |
The Speculative Motion of Hermeneutic Experience | 116 |
THE DEFENSE OF SPECULATIVE UNDERSTANDING | 128 |
The Speculative and the Humanistic | 129 |
Speculative Insight and the Unfounding of Experience | 131 |
Language and the Dialectic of Speculative Experience | 137 |
NIETZSCHE PHILOSOPHICAL HERMENEUTICS LANGUAGE AND THE MARKET PLACE | 144 |
ENTRACTE | 161 |
Understandings Disquiet | 171 |
Philosophical Hermeneutics Affirms an Ontology of the Inbetween | 15 |
Philosophical Hermeneutics Is a Philosophical Practice Rather Than a Philosophical Method | 17 |
Philosophical Hermeneutics Is a Negative Hermeneutics | 27 |
PHILOSOPHICAL HERMENEUTICS AND THE QUESTION OF OPENNESS | 31 |
Philosophical Hermeneutics and Bildung | 37 |
BILDUNG AS A TRANSFORMATIVE AND FORMATIVE PROCESS | 42 |
BILDUNG AND TRADITION | 50 |
BILDUNC AND THE QUESTION OF ESSENCE | 54 |
BILDUNG AND THE INBETWEEN | 58 |
BILDUNG AND HERMENEUTICAL PRACTICE | 66 |
BILDUNG AND SUBJECT MATTER DIE SACHE SELBST | 69 |
Sachen as a Totality of Meaning | 75 |
Die Sachen and Negative Dialectics | 79 |
Die Sachen and Platos Forms | 83 |
Sachen Cultural Communities and Cortesia | 87 |
BILDUNG AND THE QUESTION OF NIHILISM | 91 |
CONCLUSION | 106 |
Intimations of Meaning Philosophical Hermeneutics and the Defense of Speculative Understanding | 109 |
WHAT IS SPECULATIVE THINKING? | 113 |
The Formal Elements of Speculative Thought | 114 |
FOUR RESPONSES TO DECONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM | 176 |
PHILOSOPHICAL HERMENEUTICS AND THE QUESTION OF ALTERITY | 179 |
NIHILISM AND THE LIFE OF UNDERSTANDING | 182 |
DIALOGUE AND DIALECTIC | 189 |
LANGUAGE IDEAS AND SACHEN | 194 |
KEEPING THE WORD IN PLAY | 197 |
CHOICE WORDS | 207 |
THE POISE OF THE INBETWEEN | 214 |
THE GIVING WORD | 216 |
LANGUAGE AND WITHOUTENNESS | 219 |
A RESUME | 222 |
THE OPEN AND THE EMPTY | 225 |
UNDERSTANDING AND THE DISQUIETING OF THE SELF | 230 |
DIALOGUE AND DISTANCE | 237 |
AFTERWORD | 248 |
Notes | 253 |
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