Hermeneutics at the CrossroadsKevin J. Vanhoozer, James K. A. Smith, Bruce Ellis Benson In this multi-faceted volume, Christian and other religiously committed theorists find themselves at an uneasy point in history -- between premodernity, modernity, and postmodernity -- where disciplines and methods, cultural and linguistic traditions, and religious commitments tangle and cross. Here, leading theorists explore the state of the art of the contemporary hermeneutical terrain. As they address the work of Gadamer, Ricoeur, and Derrida, the essays collected in this wide-ranging work engage key themes in philosophical hermeneutics, hermeneutics and religion, hermeneutics and the other arts, hermeneutics and literature, and hermeneutics and ethics. Readers will find lively exchanges and reflections that meet the intellectual and philosophical challenges posed by hermeneutics at the crossroads. Contributors are Bruce Ellis Benson, Christina Bieber Lake, John D. Caputo, Eduardo J. Echeverria, Benne Faber, Norman Lillegard, Roger Lundin, Brian McCrea, James K. A. Smith, Michael VanderWeele, Kevin Vanhoozer, and Nicholas Wolterstorff. |
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... Gadamer's Hermeneutics and the Question of Relativism Eduardo J. Echeverria /51 4. “The Knowledge That One Does Not Know”: Gadamer, Levertov, and the Hermeneutics of the Question Christina Bieber Lake /82 Part 2. Derrida and ...
... Gadamer is likewise the subject of Eduardo J. Echeverria's chapter, “Gadamer's Hermeneutics and the Question of Relativism.” Although many have criticized Gadamer's theory of hermeneutics as being inherently relativistic, Echev- erria ...
... Gadamer, Levertov, and the Hermeneutics of the Question” is situated at the crossroads of literary, theological, and philosophical interpretation. She considers the role of the question in Gadamer's hermeneutics by turning to the book ...
... Gadamer's Truth and Method. Here we find yet another way of reading Gadamer. Lundin argues that Faulkner complicates the hermeneutical problem in this text by “placing the crucial activity of the novel in the nineteenth century and its ...
... Gadamer to call Romans a “hermeneutical manifesto” (TM, p. 509), even though the term “herme- neutics” does not even appear in any of the editions of Barth's Römerbrief. (2) The second part examines Gadamer's description of what he ...
Contents
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2 Resuscitating the Author | 35 |
3 Gadamers Hermeneutics and the Question of Relativism | 51 |
Gadamer Levertovand the Hermeneutics of the Question | 82 |
Haunted Hermeneuticsand Incarnational Iterability | 93 |
On Being Dead Equal before God | 95 |
Revisiting the SearleDerrida Debatein Christian Context | 112 |
Pointing Witnessing Exchanging | 131 |
Robinson Crusoeand the Problem of Witnessing | 150 |
9 John Calvins Notion of Exchange and the Usefulness of Literature | 164 |
Improvisation Participation Authority | 191 |
Jazz Lessons for Interpreters | 193 |
Shakespeares Merchant of Veni | 211 |
Kierkegaards Book on Adler | 225 |
contributors | 241 |
index | 243 |
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