Hermeneutics is both science and art. In many ways this beguilingly simple statement is responsible for the modern ferment in hermeneutics - a process begun with F. Schleiermacher (1768-1834) and his attempt to gain meaning through understanding the mind of the author; given significant impetus more recently in the seminal work of Hans-Georg Gadamer and his call for a dialectic between the horizons of the text and reader; and radicalized in the increasingly reader-response oriented hermeneutics of today. Ricoeur's hermeneutic of suspicion represents his attempt to retain both science and art, whilst disallowing either an absolute status.
The Society was founded in 1984 to further the study of Continental philosophy in Canada and abroad. Its membership includes scholars and students working in the various Continental traditions -- including classical German philosophy, phenomenology, existential philosophy, hermeneutics, critical theory, poststructuralism, deconstruction, postmodernism, and feminism -- as well as in related disciplines within the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
An article by Don Ihde.
Word Trade, describing itself as "an independent review agency serving the public, scholars, libraries, and booksellers," here provides reviews of books on or by Gadamer, including: Gadamer In Conversation: Reflections and Commentary by Hans Georg Gadamer; HERMENEUTICS AND THE VOICE OF THE OTHER: Re-reading Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics by James Risser; DIALOGUE & DECONSTRUCTION: The Gadamer Derrida Encounter by Diane P. Michelfelder.
Drawing on the Gadamer's "Truth and Method," Jeffrey F. Bullock, explores a way of developing a homily "that is a process of ongoing conversation rather than a method of retrieval and/or representation of biblical texts."
An Essay extending Ricoeur's work in hermeneutics into the biophysical sciences, in the hopes of developing "a framework for the mythological treatment of modern scientific cosmology which can help us productively reframe and reshape the content and culture of science."
Sample syllabus of Dr. Harry Reeder's regularly taught (graduate & undergraduate)course on hermeneutics - this course will begin with a consideration of the background of philosophical hermeneutics (theories of interpretation) in modern philosophy (Descartes, Hume, Kant, Dilthey). Then it will follow the hermeneutic tradition in philosophy as it develops in the twentieth century, through a philosophical examination of the works of Edmund Husserl, Martin Heidegger, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jürgen Habermas, and Paul Ricoeur. In addition, we will examine the independent yet in part parallel philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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