Dostal Robert J. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Gadamer

Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002. — 317 p. — (Cambridge Companions to Philosophy) — ISBN: 0-521-80193-1Hans-Georg Gadamer (b. 1900) is widely recognized as the leading exponent of philosophical hermeneutics. His work has exerted a profound impact on contemporary philosophical and theological discourse and has shaped new modes of interpretation in the social sciences. The essays in this collection examine Gadamer’s biography, the core of hermeneutical theory, and the significance of his work for ethics, aesthetics, the social sciences, and theology. There is full consideration of Gadamer’s appropriation of Hegel, Heidegger, and the Greeks, as well as his relation to modernity, critical theory, and poststructuralism.
New readers will find this the most convenient and accessible guide to Gadamer currently available. Advanced students and specialists will find a conspectus of recent developments in the interpretation of Gadamer.Gadamer: the man and his work / Robert J. Dostal
Gadamer's basic understanding of understanding / Jean Grondin
Getting it right: relativism, realism, and truth / Brice Wachterhauser
Hermeneutics, ethics, and politics / Georgia Warnke
The doing of the thing itself: Gadamer's Hermeneutic ontology of language / Günter Figal
Gadamer on the human sciences / Charles Taylor
Lyric as paradigm: Hegel and the speculative instance of poetry in Gadamer's Hermeneutics / J.M. Baker
Gadamer, the Hermeneutic revolution, and theology / Fred Lawrence
Hermeneutics in practice: Gadamer on ancient philosophy / Catherine H. Zuckert
Gadamer's Hegel / Robert B. Pippin
Gadamer's relation to Heidegger and phenomenology / Robert J. Dostal
The constellation of Hermeneutics, critical theory, and deconstruction / Richard J. Bernstein