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Human Understanding as Problem / ed. by Jesús Padilla Gálvez, Margit Gaffal.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Aporia ; 11Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2018]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (V, 191 p.)Content type:
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  • 9783110611205
  • 9783110612790
  • 9783110613384
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  • online - DeGruyter
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  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Human Understanding as Problem: An Introduction -- Levels of Understanding -- Two Ways to Fail to Understand -- Understanding, Understanding Oneself, Self-Understanding -- Towards a Performative Hermeneutics -- Wittgenstein on Understanding and Description -- Understanding, Meaning, and Expression -- Understanding Regarded as Comprehension of Content -- An Analytic View of Understanding -- Can We (Really) Put Ourselves in Other People’s Shoes? -- God, Lions, and Englishwomen -- Abbreviations of Wittgenstein’s Works -- Index -- List of Contributors
Summary: The problems associated with understanding come to light in many facets of our lives. This volume is dedicated to describing these facets and clarifying problems related to levels of comprehension, conceptual analysis, understanding oneself and the other as well as cultural aspects of understanding. The authors address the topic in different theoretical frames such as hermeneutics, phenomenology, transcendental, and analytic philosophy.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Human Understanding as Problem: An Introduction -- Levels of Understanding -- Two Ways to Fail to Understand -- Understanding, Understanding Oneself, Self-Understanding -- Towards a Performative Hermeneutics -- Wittgenstein on Understanding and Description -- Understanding, Meaning, and Expression -- Understanding Regarded as Comprehension of Content -- An Analytic View of Understanding -- Can We (Really) Put Ourselves in Other People’s Shoes? -- God, Lions, and Englishwomen -- Abbreviations of Wittgenstein’s Works -- Index -- List of Contributors

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The problems associated with understanding come to light in many facets of our lives. This volume is dedicated to describing these facets and clarifying problems related to levels of comprehension, conceptual analysis, understanding oneself and the other as well as cultural aspects of understanding. The authors address the topic in different theoretical frames such as hermeneutics, phenomenology, transcendental, and analytic philosophy.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Feb 2023)