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The Responsibility to Understand : Hermeneutical Contours of Ethical Life / Theodore George.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Contemporary Continental Ethics : CCEPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (240 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781474467636
  • 9781474467650
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 170 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface: The Unbearable Lightness of Ethics -- Introduction: Contemporary Hermeneutics and the Question of Responsibility -- PART I: THE RESPONSIBILITY TO UNDERSTAND -- 1 The Responsibility to Understand -- 2 The Capacity for Displacement -- PART II: I AND THOU -- 3 Things -- 4 Animals -- 5 Others -- PART III: I AND WE -- 6 Solidarity -- 7 Arts and Literature -- 8 Translation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: What is the significance of hermeneutics at the intersections of ethics, politics and the arts and humanities?Discusses how hermeneutics offers ways to develop an ethicsMakes the case for the relevance of contemporary hermeneutics for current scholarly discussions of responsibility within continental European philosophyContributes a new, ethically inflected approach to current debate within post-Gadamerian hermeneuticsExtends his analysis to the practice of living and covers animals, art, literature and translationFew topics have received broader attention within contemporary philosophy than that of responsibility. Theodore George makes a novel case for a distinctive sense of responsibility at stake in the hermeneutical experiences of understanding and interpretation.He argues for the significance of this hermeneutical responsibility in the context of our relations with things, animals and others, as well as political solidarity and the formation of solidarities through the arts, literature and translation.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Preface: The Unbearable Lightness of Ethics -- Introduction: Contemporary Hermeneutics and the Question of Responsibility -- PART I: THE RESPONSIBILITY TO UNDERSTAND -- 1 The Responsibility to Understand -- 2 The Capacity for Displacement -- PART II: I AND THOU -- 3 Things -- 4 Animals -- 5 Others -- PART III: I AND WE -- 6 Solidarity -- 7 Arts and Literature -- 8 Translation -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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What is the significance of hermeneutics at the intersections of ethics, politics and the arts and humanities?Discusses how hermeneutics offers ways to develop an ethicsMakes the case for the relevance of contemporary hermeneutics for current scholarly discussions of responsibility within continental European philosophyContributes a new, ethically inflected approach to current debate within post-Gadamerian hermeneuticsExtends his analysis to the practice of living and covers animals, art, literature and translationFew topics have received broader attention within contemporary philosophy than that of responsibility. Theodore George makes a novel case for a distinctive sense of responsibility at stake in the hermeneutical experiences of understanding and interpretation.He argues for the significance of this hermeneutical responsibility in the context of our relations with things, animals and others, as well as political solidarity and the formation of solidarities through the arts, literature and translation.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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