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The Specter of Relativism Lawrence Kennedy Schmidt

The Specter of Relativism By Lawrence Kennedy Schmidt

The Specter of Relativism by Lawrence Kennedy Schmidt


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This text addresses relativism from the perspective of Gadamer's hermeneutics. This collection of essays explores several of the key issues in contemporary philosophy - the nature of truth, the model of conversation, and the possibility of an ethics in postmodern conditions.

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The Specter of Relativism: Truth, Dialogue and Phronesis in Philosophical Hermeneutics by Lawrence Kennedy Schmidt

This text adresses the timely topic of relativism from the perspective of Gadamer's hermeneutics. This collection of essays explores several of the key issues in contemporary philosophy - the nature of truth, the model of conversation, and the possibility of an ethics in postmodern conditions - in the context of the work of Gadamer. Although centred on Gadamer and including the first English translation of one of his essays, the volume does not narrowly define or defend the approach of philosophical hermeneutics; the contributors present a broad range of views, in some cases championing a Gadamerian perspective, in others challenging it.

Table of Contents

On the composition of Truth and Method, Jean Grondin; hermeneutical truth and the structure of human experience - Gadamer's critique of Dilthey, Tom Nenon; Gadamer's hermeneutic and the overcoming of epistemology, Tom Rockmore; understanding, interpreting and agreeing, Lawrence K. Schmidt; three puzzles from Gadamer's hermeneutics, Joseph Margolis; Caputo's critique of Gadamer - hermeneutics and the metaphorics of person, Frank Ambrosio; hermeneutics of the possible - on finitude and truth in philosophical hermeneutics, James Risser; on the truth of the word, Hans-Georg Gadamer; the art of dialogue and the hermeneutic ideal, Robert Bernasconi; towards a discursive logic - Gadamer and Toulmin on inquiry and argument, P. Christopher Smith; understanding and willing, Kees Vuyk; play and ethics in culturus interruptus - Gadamer's hermeneutics in postmodernity, Marc J. LaFoutain; Gadamer, Foucault, and Habermas on ethical critique, Michael Kelly; phronesis as understanding - situating philosophical hermeneutics, Gunter Figal.

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CIN0810112574A
9780810112575
0810112574
The Specter of Relativism: Truth, Dialogue and Phronesis in Philosophical Hermeneutics by Lawrence Kennedy Schmidt
Used - Well Read
Paperback
Northwestern University Press
19950719
316
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