Description: Philosophical Hermeneutics and Literary Theory, Hardcover by Weinsheimer, Joel, ISBN 0300047851, ISBN-13 9780300047851, Brand New, Free shipping in the US In this lucid and elegantly written book, Joel Weinsheimer discusses how the insights of Hans-Georg Gadamer alter our understanding of literary theory and interpretation. Weinsheimer begins by surveying modern hermeneutics from Schleiermacher to Riocoeur, showing that Gadamer’s work is situated in the middle of an ongoing dialogue. Gadamer’s hermeneutics, says Weinsheimer, is specifically philosophical for it explores how understanding occurs at all, not how it should be regulated in order to function more rigorously or effectively. According to Weinsheimer, Gadamer views understanding as an effect of history, not an action but a passion, something that happens to the interpreter. Gadamer offers a new model of historical understanding that is based on metaphor: it fuses the different into the same but, like metaphor, does not repress difference. Similarly, Gadamer’s critique of the semiotic conception of language redresses the balance between difference and sameness in the relation of word and world. The common thread in the contributions of philosophical hermeneutics to literary theory is the multifaceted tension between the one and the many, between sameness and difference. This appears in metaphor and application, in the complex dialogue between the past and present, and between the interpretation and the interpreted generally. In the final chapter of th, “The Question of the Classic,” Weinsheimer explores the implications of this analysis of Gadamer’s hermeneutics for the current debate concerning the study of the canon and the classic.
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Book Title: Philosophical Hermeneutics and Literary Theory
Number of Pages: 192 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Philosophical Hermeneutics and Literary Theory
Publisher: Yale University Press
Subject: Epistemology, Hermeneutics, Semiotics & Theory
Publication Year: 1991
Item Height: 0.7 in
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 15.5 Oz
Author: Joel Weinsheimer
Subject Area: Literary Criticism, Philosophy
Item Length: 8.6 in
Item Width: 6.6 in
Format: Hardcover
