Research Catalog

Title

Sense, meaning and understanding : towards a systematic hermeneutical philosophy / Andrzej Przyłębski.

Author

Przyłębski, Andrzej

Publication

• Zurich : Lit, [2013]
• [North America] : International Specialized Book Services, [date of distribution not identified]
• ©2013

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Details

Description

169 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Development in humanities ; volume 9

Uniform Title

Development in humanities v. 9.

Subject

• Gadamer, Hans-Georg 1900-2002
• Hermeneutics

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-165) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Hermeneutics as the future of philosophy -- Understanding as a philosophical category. Plea for a concept -- The problem of the life-world as the birthplace of hermeneutical philosophy -- Hermeneutical reason -- Understanding as a border phenomenon of propositionality. A consideration of the explaining-understanding controversy -- Philosophizing from the conversation that we are. Gadamer's contribution to the development of contemporary philosophy -- The borders of hermeneutical reason. About the putative and real imitations of Gadamer's hermeneutics -- Gadamer's critique of the instrumental philosophy of language -- A 'better' or just 'another' understanding? Some remarks on the creative character of interpretation -- Scientific cognition in the perspective of hermeneutical philosophy. Some preliminary remarks based on Hans-Georg Gadamer and Ludwik Fleck.

ISBN

• 3643903782
• 9783643903785

OCLC

• 852732940
• SCSB-11572623

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library