TY  - BOOK
AU  - George,Theodore
TI  - The Responsibility to Understand: Hermeneutical Contours of Ethical Life 
T2  - Contemporary Continental Ethics : CCE
SN  - 9781474467636
U1  - 170 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Edinburgh : 
PB  - Edinburgh University Press, 
KW  - Hermeneutics
KW  - Responsibility
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474467650?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781474467650
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