Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
  1. Home
  2. Publications
  3. Collections & Series
  4. Cambridge Companions
  5. Content listing

Refine search

Refine search

Access:
Content type:
Publication date:
Subject: Show more
Journals Show more
Societies Show more
Collections: Show more

Actions for selected content:

Select all | Deselect all
  • View selected items
  • Export citations
  • Download PDF (zip)
  • Save to Kindle
  • Save to Dropbox
  • Save to Google Drive

Save Search

You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches".

Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters.
Cancel
×

22038 results in Cambridge Companions

Page 283 of 1102

  • 14 - Hermeneutics and Law

  • 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 326-353

  • Summary

    In contrast to monistic conceptions of hermeneutics as interpretation, legal hermeneutics has always been acutely aware of the complexity of our hermeneutic practices. The legal tradition thus speaks in favor a complex conception of hermeneutics that identifies the different activities involved. The chapter tries to show that such diverse activities as interpretation, rule-following, construction, association, the exercise of discretion, and judgments on significance can all be involved in the application of the law. All of these distinct practices involve distinct theoretical issues, most of which can be linked to particular debates in analytic philosophy. To prove the point that this complex conception of hermeneutics is not specific to the law, but applies to hermeneutics in general, some parallels in the field of the hermeneutics of art are drawn. In theoretically following up on the distinctions inherent in legal doctrine and methods, hermeneutics in general can live up to Gadamer’s observation that there is something to be learned from looking at the law.

  • 3 - Hermeneutics and Romanticism

  • 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 65-86

  • Summary

    The advent of modern hermeneutics is inextricably bound up with German romanticism. This chapter charts the emergence of modern hermeneutics by identifying and detailing philosophically three phases of its development in romanticism. First, there is discussion of the hermeneutics of the Jena circle of romantics, where focus falls on Friedrich Schlegel – in particular his account of philosophical irony, fragmentary philosophical expression, and the absolute. The treatment connects these central philosophical conceptions to Schlegel’s philosophy of language and historiography. Interpretative understanding is a general mode of experience for Schlegel, significantly broadening the scope of hermeneutics from its home base in textual exegesis. In the second phase, romanticism provides hermeneutics with its earliest modern systematic form. Here the narrative turns to Schleiermacher’s systematization of hermeneutics – to hermeneutical theory correctly so-called – as contained in his Berlin lectures. Last, hermeneutical theory is extended scientifically by the work in the philosophy of language and comparative linguistics of Wilhelm von Humboldt. Taken together, these three phases of the interaction of hermeneutics and German romanticism constitute the core European understanding of hermeneutics prior to its reconceptualization in phenomenology.

  • 5 - Hermeneutics and History

  • 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 110-132

  • Summary

    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.

  • 11 - Hermeneutics

  • 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 260-285

  • Summary

    This chapter argues that, contrary appearances notwithstanding, France has made important contributions to the development of hermeneutics. The chapter focuses on the two centuries of which this is most true: the eighteenth and the twentieth. The chapter argues that French thought in the eighteenth century contributed one of the two main underpinnings of German hermeneutics: a recognition of anti-universalism that was subsequently adopted by Herder and his successors. The chapter then argues that in the twentieth century a whole series of French thinkers made further significant contributions to hermeneutics (albeit while usually avoiding the word), in particular Sartre, Ricoeur, Derrida, Barthes, Todorov, and Kristeva. Barthes’s contribution of a structuralist dimension to hermeneutics and his expansion of the hermeneutics of texts and discourse into a broader semiology are especially emphasized.

  • 12 - Hermeneutics

  • 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 286-303

  • Summary

    This chapter introduces non-Western perspectives on hermeneutics. The reception of Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer across the globe is a particularly striking case of the transcultural transfer of ideas. Over the twentieth century, philosophers from the Arab and Persian world, India, China, and Japan, have engaged with Heidegger’s account of understanding and Gadamer’s theory of hermeneutic experience and effective history. This reception has often taken place against the backdrop of the philosophers’ own intellectual traditions and interpretative practices. In addition to introducing several different perspectives, with special emphasis on China, this contribution discusses the advantages of a truly global perspective on hermeneutics.

  • 1 - History and Construction of the Harpsichord

  • Edited by Mark Kroll, Boston University
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to the Harpsichord
    Published online:
    05 January 2019
    Print publication:
    03 January 2019, pp 2-30
    • Chapter
      • You have access
    • PDF
    • HTML
    • Export citation

Page 283 of 1102