Relational Hermeneutics

Paul Fairfield is Professor of Philosophy at Queen’s University in Kingston, ON, Canada. He is the author of nine sole-authored books and editor or co-editor of five anthologies. His writings cover themes in philosophical hermeneutics, phenomenology, and pragmatism. Saulius Geniusas is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author or editor of several books and anthologies, including The Origins of the Horizon in Husserl’s Phenomenology (2012), Stretching the Limits of Productive Imagination (2018).

Editors’ Introduction: Relational Hermeneutics

Part 1: Hermeneutics and Philosophies of Existence

1. Babette Babich, “Solicitude: Heideggerian Care and Assistance”
2. Thomas W. Busch, “Sartre: From Hyperbolic Existentialism to Crypto-Hermeneutics”
3. Antonio Calcagno, “The Existentialist Reworking of Hermeneutics: Heidegger, Sartre, and de Beauvoir”
4. Andrew Wiercinski, “The Hermeneutics of Lived Time”

Part 2: Hermeneutics and Pragmatism

5. Paul Fairfield, “Hermeneutical Pragmatism”
6. Vincent Colapietro, “The Pragmatic Spiral”
7. Ramsey Eric Ramsey and Raelynn Gosse, “A Poet on Each Side of the Poem: A Hermeneutic and Democratic Demand for Engaging Tradition”
8. Saulius Geniusas, “Things as they are / Are changed upon the blue guitar: Self-Realization and Productive Imagination”

Part 3: Hermeneutics and Poststructuralism

9. Carlos Prado, “Foucault and Hermeneutics”
10. Pol Vandevelde, “Dialogue or Drama? The Role of Language as Seen by Gadamer and Foucault”
11. Marc-Antoine Vallee, “Understanding: A Violent Aim?”
12. Lisa Watrous, “Hermeneutics as Loving Understanding: Toward a Feminist Poststructuralist Hermeneutics”

Part 4: Hermeneutics and Eastern Thought

13. Nicholas Davey, “The Turning Word: Relational Hermeneutics and Aspects of Buddhist Thought”
14. Eric S. Nelson, “Confucian Relational Hermeneutics, the Emotions, and Ethical Life”
15. David Chai, “Daoist Existential Hermeneutics and the Art of World-Making”
Index