Hermeneutics and Negativism - Existential Ambiguities of Self-Understanding

This volume explores existential questions within the following three thematic fields: first, experiences of anxiety and despair as related to the question of what these phenomena show about freedom and its difficulties; second, hermeneutical theories as related to the question of how we can develop an existential hermeneutics that can account for the ambiguities of self-understanding between transparency and opacity, and, third, selfhood between self-understanding and self-alienation as a focal point of existential psycho(patho)logy. What can disturbances to or breakdowns in self-understanding teach us about personhood? Making visible one's own blindness by articulating the shadows of our knowledge and abilities is at the core of a negativistic approach to existential questions discussed in a dialogue between philosophical anthropology, phenomenology, theology, psychoanalysis, and psychiatry.

Product details

• Assisted by: René Rosfort (Editor), Claudia Welz (Editor)
• Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.02.2018
• EAN: 9783161557514
• ISBN: 978-3-16-155751-4
• No. of pages: 269
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 236 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 428 g
• Series: Religion in Philosophy and Theology / RPT