Gadamer and Hermeneutics

Hugh J. Silverman

Introduction Hugh J. Silverman; Part 1: Gadamer/Gadamer; 1. Gadamer on Gadamer Hans-Georg Gadamer; Part 2: Plato/Heidegger/Gadamer; 2. Plato as Impulse and Obstacle in Gadamer’s Development of a Hermeneutical Theory P. Christopher Smith 3. A Response to P. Christopher Smith R. Nicholas Davey; Part 3: Ricoeur/Gadamer; 4. Dialogue, Text, Narrative: Confronting Gadamer and Ricoeur Gary E. Aylesworth 5. The Dialectical Unity of Hermeneutics of Ricoeur and Gadamer Leonard Lawlor; Part 4: Barthes/Gadamer; 6. Reading the Text James Risser 7. Rereading Gadamer: A Response to James Risser Deborah Cook; Part 5: Derrida/Gadamer; 8. Beyond Seriousness and Frivolity: A Gadamerian Response to Deconstruction Gary B. Madison 9. L’Ecriture and Philosophical Hermeneutics Wayne J. Froman; Part 6: Habermas/Gadamer; 10. Answers to Critical Theory Graeme Nicholson 11. Modernity and Hermeneutics: A Critical-Theoretical Rejoinder Dieter Misgeld; Part 7: Metaphorical Hermeneutics; 12. Gadamer’s Metaphorical Hermeneutics Joel Weinsheimer 13. Whose Home is it Anyway? A Feminist Response to Gadamer’s Hermeneutics Robin Schott; Part 8: Science and Hermeneutics; 14. Hermeneutical Phenomenology and the Philosophy of Science Patrick A. Heelan 15. Beyond Realism and Idealism: A Response to Patrick A. Heelan Joseph J. Kockelmans; Part 9: Hermeneutics and the Text; 16. The Interpretative Text Vincent Descombes 17. Interpreting the Interpretative Text Hugh J. Silverman; Notes; Bibliography