James Risser: 3 books
The Life of Understanding
A Contemporary Hermeneutics
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2012
In Gadamer’s hermeneutics, interpretation is inseparable from the broader concern of making one’s way in life. In this book, James Risser builds on this insight about the juxtaposition of human living and the act of understanding by tracing hermeneutics back to the basic experience of philosophy...
Philosophy and Poetry
Continental Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2019
Ever since Plato’s Socrates exiled the poets from the ideal city in The Republic, Western thought has insisted on a strict demarcation between philosophy and poetry. Yet might their long-standing quarrel hide deeper affinities? This book explores the distinctive ways in which twentieth-century and...
Gadamer verstehen
Gadamer verstehen /Understanding Gadamer
Language: German
Release Date: February 1, 2012
Hans-Georg Gadamer ist eine der herausragenden Gestalten der Gegenwartsphilosophie. Sein Hauptwerk ›Wahrheit und Methode‹ ist ein Klassiker der philosophischen Hermeneutik. Der vorliegende Band ist ein Kompendium zu Gadamers Philosophie. Ideengeschichtlich werden die unterschiedlichsten Einflüsse...