| Objectivity: The Hermeneutical and Philosophy Contributor(s): Figal, Günter (Author), George, Theodore (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1438432062 ISBN-13: 9781438432069 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $36.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Movements - Phenomenology - Philosophy | Epistemology |
| Dewey: 121.686 |
| Series: SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.9" W x 8.7" (1.40 lbs) 470 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: G nter Figal has long been recognized as one of the most insightful interpreters working in the tradition of philosophical hermeneutics and its leading themes concerned with ancient Greek thought, art, language, and history. With this book, Figal presses this tradition of philosophical hermeneutics in new directions. In his effort to forge philosophical hermeneutics into a hermeneutical philosophy, Figal develops an original critique of the objectification of the world that emerges in modernity as the first stage in his systematic treatment of the elements of experience hermeneutically understood. Breaking through the prejudices of modernity, but not sacrificing the importance and challenge of the objective world that confronts us and is in need of interpretation, Figal reorients how it is that philosophy should take up some of its most longstanding and stubborn questions. World, object, space, language, freedom, time, and life are refreshed as philosophical notions here since they are each regarded as elements of human life engaged in the task assigned to each of us--the task of understanding ourselves and our world. |