Research Catalog

Title

The philosophical dialogue : a poetics and a hermeneutics / Vittorio Hösle ; translated by Steven Rendall.

Author

Hösle, Vittorio, 1960-

Publication

• Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, 2012
• ©2012

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Additional Authors

Rendall, Steven

Description

xx, 500 pages; 22 cm.

Uniform Title

Philosophische Dialog. English

Alternative Title

Philosophische Dialog.

Subject

• Philosophy
• Dialogue

Note

• Previously published in German, under the title Der philosophische Dialog : eine Poetik und Hermeneutik. München : Beck, c2006.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 464-477) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1 The Place of Philosophical Dialogue among the Literary Forms of Philosophy 6 -- 2 Conversation and Dialogue: Historical and Fictional Dialogue-Chat and Discussion-Philosophical and Nonphilosophical Dialogue 19 -- 3 On the Relationship between Form and Content in the Philosophical Dialogue 48 -- Part I The Production of Philosophical Dialogue -- 4 The Stages of the Philosophical Dialogue's Historical Development 71 -- 5 Social Presuppositions and Obstacles 120 -- 6 Individual Presuppositions and Obstacles 131 -- 7 The Problem of Authorial Intention 136 -- Part II The Universe of the Philosophical Dialogue -- 8 Individual Dialogues and Groups of Dialogues 155 -- 9 Introductory Taxonomy: Direct, Indirect, and Mixed Dialogues 163 -- 10 The Modal and Ontological Status of the Literary Universe-Personification and the Problem of Realism-Dream and Dialogue 185 -- 11 The Space of Conversation 210 -- 12 The Time of Conversation 237 -- 13 The Number of Persons in the Conversation 258 -- 14 The Initial Conditions of Conversation: Arranged and Accidental Conversations-Symmetrical and Asymmetrical Conversations-Authority and Autonomy 290 -- 15 The Goal of Conversation: Learning From versus Learning About-Dissent, Consensus, Aporia-Total versus Partial Communication 331 -- 16 The Ethics of Conversation 374 -- 17 The Logic of Conversation 406 -- 18 The Aesthetics of the Dialogue 430 -- Part III The Reception of the Philosophical Dialogue -- 19 Conversation between Different Dialogic Universes 443 -- 20 Conversation between Author and Reader 458.

ISBN

• 9780268030971 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 0268030979 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

• ^^2012037027
• 40021956210

OCLC

• 794362041
• SCSB-12270796

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library