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The Cambridge Companion to the Harpsichord
  • Edited by Mark Kroll
  • Published online:
    05 January 2019
    Print publication:
    03 January 2019
  • Written by fourteen leading experts in the field, this Companion covers almost every aspect of the harpsichord - the history of the instrument, tuning systems, the role of the harpsichord in ensemble, its use in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, and includes separate chapters devoted to Domenico Scarlatti, J. S. Bach and Handel. Chapters featuring almost every national style are written by authors with close connections to the countries about which they are writing, including England, The Netherlands, Germany, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, France, Italy, Portugal and Spain, as well as the less extensive harpsichord traditions of Russia, the Nordic and Baltic countries, and colonial Spanish and Portuguese America. With musical examples, illustrations, a timeline of the harpsichord, and an appendix of composers, reliable editions and original sources, this book is for all who love the harpsichord, or want to learn more about it.

  • 4 - Hermeneutics and German Idealism

  • Edited by Michael N. Forster, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Kristin Gjesdal, Temple University, Philadelphia
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Hermeneutics
    Published online:
    27 December 2018
    Print publication:
    03 January 2019, pp 87-109

  • Summary

    Toward the end of the eighteenth century, hermeneutic thought in Germany developed in close proximity to the emerging “idealist” and “romantic” philosophical movements inspired by the “critical philosophy” of Immanuel Kant. Crucially this was a time that witnessed the growth of interest in the structure of national languages and literatures, and the question was soon posed as to the relation between what Kant had postulated as the a priori structure governing an individual’s experience and thought and the structure of the actual language that that individual had assimilated from their cultural tradition. This chapter examines the emergence of the strong language-dependence thesis in the approach of the early hermeneutic thinkers Hamann and Herder, and their use of this idea to criticise the “purism” of Kantian thought. It then follows the ensuing response by Kant and his followers, especially Fichte and Hegel, as the latter attempted to bring a linguistic dimension to a Kantian inspired idealism. The issue of the relation of thought to language that was at the heart of this complexly developing debate has continued to be of philosophical concern up to the present.

  • 13 - Hermeneutics and Literature

  • Edited by Michael N. Forster, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Kristin Gjesdal, Temple University, Philadelphia
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Hermeneutics
    Published online:
    27 December 2018
    Print publication:
    03 January 2019, pp 304-325

  • Summary

    Ancient hermeneutics, which generated allegorical interpretations of fables of the poets and biblical texts, played a significant role in the study literature until the Renaissance, and an interest in literature help to stimulate the foundation of philosophical hermeneutics in German romanticism and after, but philosophical hermeneutics has played little role in literary studies subsequently. Until the mid-twentieth century, literary criticism was primarily evaluative rather than interpretive, but when it made interpretation its goal, it did not draw on the tradition of philosophical hermeneutics. A discussion of the nature of literary criticism and of the relationship between hermeneutics and the poetics focuses on this history, with brief treatments of exceptions, such as the work of E. D. Hirsch and H. R. Jauss.

  • 6 - Hermeneutics and Positivism

  • Edited by Michael N. Forster, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Kristin Gjesdal, Temple University, Philadelphia
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Hermeneutics
    Published online:
    27 December 2018
    Print publication:
    03 January 2019, pp 133-157

  • Summary

    This chapter is a critique of the positivist reception of hermeneutics. This reception was marked by the positivist theory of historical explanation as subsumption under a covering law or a causal generalization. It is argued that this theory cannot explain many aspects of historical method, specifically those that are used to reconstruct events in the past. The positivist assumes that the past is a given and then attempts to find a covering law to explain it; but most historical research has to reconstruct a past that is not given and is not concerned with the discovery of law-like regularities. The positivist polemic against hermeneutics is also discussed and it is argued that this rests upon a caricature, as if hermeneutics were nothing more than empathy. Last but not least, the chapter is an examination of Weber’s theory that historical understanding requires both causal and normative explanation where normative explanation is not reducible to causal explanation.

  • 10 - Hermeneutics and Critical Theory

  • Edited by Michael N. Forster, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Kristin Gjesdal, Temple University, Philadelphia
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Hermeneutics
    Published online:
    27 December 2018
    Print publication:
    03 January 2019, pp 237-259

  • Summary

    Both Jürgen Habermas and Axel Honneth think Hans-Georg Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics gives insufficient space for the operations of critical reflection. This chapter briefly explores the trajectory Max Horkheimer sets for the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory and then turns to the way Habermas and Honneth take up Critical Theory’s concerns in their engagement with Gadamer’s work. Habermas challenges what he sees as the precedence Gadamer gives to the authority of tradition over reason while Honneth challenges what he sees as the precedence Gadamer gives to the immediate experience of tradition over reflection on it in the light of generalized norms. Zammito: The discipline of history has had to struggle from the outset with the philosophical challenge to its status as a “science.” Hermeneutic historicism has been the most plausible basis for a consistent response to this challenge. In this chapter I trace the disciplinary constitution of history via hermeneutic historicism in the works of Johann Gottfried Herder, Friedrich Schleiermacher, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Johann Gustav Droysen, and Wilhelm Dilthey. One of my objectives is to displace a conception of the rise of the discipline identified too closely with Leopold von Ranke, and instead to situate Droysen as the key theoretical progenitor of modern historical self-understanding and practice.

  • 1 - Crusader Chronicles

  • from Part I - Genres
  • Edited by Anthony Bale, Birkbeck College, University of London
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the Crusades
    Published online:
    14 December 2018
    Print publication:
    03 January 2019, pp 11-24
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  • 1 - Hermeneutics and Theology

  • Edited by Michael N. Forster, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Kristin Gjesdal, Temple University, Philadelphia
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Hermeneutics
    Published online:
    27 December 2018
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    03 January 2019, pp 11-36
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    Starting from comments on the biblical texts as the “texts to be read” in biblical hermeneutics, the chapter addresses the encounter between Enlightenment thought and the theological tradition in order to explain three major hermeneutical challenges: first, the biblical narratives were no longer regarded as the key to the history of humankind, but as witnesses to particular religious cultures across many centuries in antiquity. Second, the biblical texts came to be contrasted with the philosophical concept of a natural religion which in turn included the idea of a natural law, i.e., a universalist concept of ethics. Third, the role of the reader in the hermeneutical process was redefined through an orientation toward the experience of the “inner truth” of scriptural texts rather than a reliance on formal demonstrations of ecclesiastical truth claims. Against the background of pre-Enlightenment hermeneutical models in which the “circumstances” of the origin of the texts as well as the question of the thematic “centre” and relevance of individual biblical texts had already been addressed, the philosophical claims raised by Immanuel Kant are brought into focus.

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