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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... kind enough to introduce us to Bakhtin. A follow-up public conference, still entitled “Hermeneutics at the Crossroads,” was held at Calvin College in May 2003. Early drafts of the papers in the present volume were there delivered ...
... kind of relational charity—a way of en- countering and responding to the Other. Kevin J. Vanhoozer's opening chapter, “Discourse on Matter: Hermeneutics and the 'Miracle' of Understanding,” launches both the topic and the tenor of the ...
... kind of Jewish gadfly” that stands at the crossroads of all concrete messianisms. In “Limited Inc/arnation: Revisiting the Searle/Derrida Debate in Christian Context,” James K. A. Smith works at a number of crossroads. Insisting that ...
... kind of adaptation, he sees jazz improvisations, musical scores, and even written texts as improvisatory “all the way down.” Benson points out that improvisation first requires becoming part of a practice or tradition (whether jazz or ...
... kind of hypothetico- deductive scientific reasoning, for thinking on the basis of reason alone. Descartes begins his philosophical reformation with himself: “My objective was never anything more than an attempt to reform my own thoughts ...
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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