Herder''s Hermeneutics - History, Poetry, Enlightenment

Informationen zum Autor Kristin Gjesdal is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Temple University, Philadelphia. She is author of Gadamer and the Legacy of German Idealism (Cambridge, 2009), editor of Key Debates in Nineteenth-Century European Philosophy (2016), and co-editor of The Oxford Handbook of German Philosophy in the Nineteenth Century (2015) and The Cambridge Companion to Hermeneutics (with Michael N. Forster, Cambridge, 2019). Klappentext This book offers new perspectives on the historical origins and contemporary challenges of modern hermeneutics through a detailed exploration of Herder's Enlightenment philosophy. Zusammenfassung Through a detailed study of Herder's Enlightenment contribution! especially his philosophy of literature! this book offers a new reading of the origins and challenges of modern hermeneutics. The book will appeal to students of eighteenth-century thought and to scholars working in the fields of hermeneutics! aesthetics! and European philosophy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. The future of philosophy; 2. Poetry, history, aesthetics; 3. Aesthetic value and historical understanding; 4. Human nature and human science; 5. Prejudice and interpretation; 6. Critique and Bildung; 7. Self and other; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Kristin Gjesdal, Kristin (Temple University Gjesdal, Gjesdal Kristin
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.07.2017
• EAN: 9781107112865
• ISBN: 978-1-107-11286-5
• No. of pages: 244
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / Epistemology, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900, Philosophical traditions and schools of thought, Philosophy: epistemology & theory of knowledge, Philosophy: epistemology and theory of knowledge