Gadamer and Hermeneutics (Continental Philosophy IV)

With the publication of Hans-Georg Gadamer's Truth and Method in 1960, hermeneutics took a new turn-extending its range to aesthetic, cultural, historical, literary, and broad philosophical questions. This volume looks at developments in Gadamerian hermeneutics in the thirty years since the publication of the philosopher's magnum opus. This fourth volume of the Continental Philosophy series opens with an account by Gadamer of his own life and work and their relation to the achievements of hermeneutics. Building upon the key theme of dia- logue, Gadamer and Hermeneutics provides a series of essays, either linking Gadamer to other major contemporary philosophers or focusing on a given Gadamerian theme. Central to the volume are debates about the virtues of Gadamerian hermeneutics in contrast to aspects of the work of Heidegger, Ricoeur, Barthes, Derrida and Habermas. This volume concludes with three dialogues around the major Gadamerian questions of metaphor, science, and the text. Contributors: Gary E. Aylesworth, Deborah Cook, Nicholas Davey, Vincent Descombes, Wayne J. Froman, Patrick A. Heelan, Joseph J. Kockelmans, Leonard Lawlor, Gary B. Madison, Dieter Misgeld, Graeme Nicholson, James Risser, Robin Schott, Hugh J. Silverman, P. Christopher Smith, and Joel Weinsheimer.