Title

GADAMER AND RICOEUR: CRITICAL HORIZONS FOR CONTEMPORARY HERMENEUTICS

Authors

Francis J. Mootz III, University of the PacificFollow
George H. Taylor

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Description

Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur were two of the most important hermeneutical philosophers of the twentieth century. Gadamer single-handedly revived hermeneutics as a philosophical field with his many essays and his masterpiece, Truth and Method. Ricoeur famously mediated the Gadamer-Habermas debate and advanced his own hermeneutical philosophy through a number of books addressing social theory, religion, psychoanalysis and political philosophy.

This book brings Gadamer and Ricoeur into a hermeneutical conversation with each other through some of their most important commentators. Twelve leading scholars deliver contemporary assessments of the history and promise of hermeneutical philosophy, providing focused discussion on the work of these two key hermeneutical thinkers. The book shows how the horizons of their thought at once support and question each other and how, in many ways, the work of these two pioneering philosophers defines the issues and agendas for the new century.

ISBN

978-1441156853

Publication Date

4-14-2011

Publisher

Continuum Publishing

City

New York

Disciplines

Law

Comments

Part of the series, Studies in Continental Philosophy

Recommended Citation

Francis J. Mootz III & George H. Taylor, GADAMER AND RICOEUR: CRITICAL HORIZONS FOR CONTEMPORARY HERMENEUTICS (2011).
Available at: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/facultybooks/176