Self-Understanding and Lifeworld by Hans-Helmuth Gander

Self-Understanding and Lifeworld by Hans-Helmuth Gander

What are the foundations of human self-understanding and the value of responsible philosophical questioning? Focusing on Heidegger's early work on facticity, historicity, and the phenomenological hermeneutics of factical-historical life, Hans-Helmuth Gander develops an idea of understanding that reflects our connection with the world and other, and thus invites deep consideration of phenomenology, hermeneutics, and deconstruction. He draws usefully on Husserl's phenomenology and provides grounds for exchange with Descartes, Dilthey, Nietzsche, Gadamer, Ricoeur, and Foucault. On the way to developing a contemporary hermeneutical philosophy, Gander clarifies the human relation to self in and through conversation with Heidegger's early hermeneutics. Questions about reading and writing then follow as these are the very actions that structure human self-understanding and world understanding.

Gander's Self-Understanding and Lifeworld is an eminent text within contemporary Continental philosophyAn English translation is essential and Ryan Drake and Joshua Rayman have done an admirable job preserving the style of the German. -Lawrence K. Schmidt, author of Understanding Hermeneutics

Hans-Helmuth Gander is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Husserl Archive at the University of Freiburg.

Ryan Drake is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fairfield University in Connecticut. He specializes in 20th century European philosophy and ancient philosophy.

Joshua Rayman is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Florida. He is author of Kant on Sublimity and Morality.

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ISBN 13	9780253025555
ISBN 10	0253025559
Title	Self-Understanding and Lifeworld
Author	Hans-Helmuth Gander
Series	Studies In Continental Thought
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Indiana University Press
Year published	2017-08-28
Number of pages	430
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