Incorporating discussion of the German hermeneutical tradition, exemplified by the work of Heidegger, Bultmann, and Gadamer, this book helps to bridge Anglo-American and German scholarly traditions.
In this book, James Risser builds on this insight about the juxtaposition of human living and the act of understanding by tracing hermeneutics back to the basic experience of philosophy as defined by Plato.
This book brings Gadamer and Ricoeur into a hermeneutical conversation with each other through some of their most important commentators.
Acknowledging that hermeneutics has become an increasingly important major focus in theological study, Donald McKim's A Guide to Contemporary Hermeneutics presents a series of essays by various writers, assessing current hermeneutical ...
Perhaps more directly than others who have been receptive to postmodern developments, Smith seeks to deal with the relationship between hermeneutics and metaphysics. He insightfully treats interpretation as a not a postlapsarian ...
See Sallis, “Hermeneutics of Translation,” in Language and Linguisticality in Gadamer's Hermeneutics, 75. 28. “Text and Interpretation,” 47; GW 2, 356. 29. See Walter Benjamin, Selected Writings, Volume 4: 1938–1940, trans.
He is a former student of Gadamer and the author of The Hermeneutics of Original Argument: Demonstration, Dialectic, Rhetoric (1998) and Hermeneutics and Human Finitude (1991). He is also the translator of Gadamer's The Idea of the Good ...
" In the early Christian centuries, as today, "biblical interpretation determined theology and theology shaped biblical hermeneutics," notes David S. Dockery. Dockery tells the story of that interrelationship from Jesus'...
In this wide-ranging meditation on the nature and purpose of hermeneutics, Gerald L. Bruns argues that hermeneutics is not merely a contemporary theory but an extended family of questions about understanding and interpretation that have ...
Hermeneutics and Modern Philosophy is a collection of interpretive and critical essays on philosophical hermeneutics, focusing on the seminal work of Heidegger and Gadamer.