| Hermeneutics and Negativism: Existential Ambiguities of Self-Understanding Contributor(s): Welz, Claudia (Editor), Rosfort, Rene (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3161557514 ISBN-13: 9783161557514 Publisher: Mohr Siebeck OUR PRICE: $117.80 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Religious - Religion | Ethics - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Series: Religion in Philosophy and Theology |
| Physical Information: (1.66 lbs) 269 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume explores existential questions within the following three thematic fields: first, experiences of anxiety and despair as related to the question of what these phenomena show about freedom and its difficulties; second, hermeneutical theories as related to the question of how we can develop an existential hermeneutics that can account for the ambiguities of self-understanding between transparency and opacity, and, third, selfhood between self-understanding and self-alienation as a focal point of existential psycho(patho)logy. What can disturbances to or breakdowns in self-understanding teach us about personhood? Making visible one's own blindness by articulating the shadows of our knowledge and abilities is at the core of a negativistic approach to existential questions discussed in a dialogue between philosophical anthropology, phenomenology, theology, psychoanalysis, and psychiatry. |