Negative Hermeneutics and the Question of Practice

Nicholas Davey is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dundee, UK. His previous publications include Unquiet Understanding (2006) and Unfinished Worlds (2014).

Acknowledgements

Introduction: A Question of Attunement

Part One: Negative Perceptions
1.1 Falling into Question: Hermeneutics and the Humanities
1.2 Hermeneutics in Question
1.3 Humanities in Question: Recalibrating the Question
1.4 Entr’ Acte No 1.

Part Two: The Way of the Negative
2.1 Introduction. Negation’s Optimism
2.2 Hermeneutic Negativity
2.3 Deconstructive Negativity
2.4 The Negativity of Experience
2.5 Liminal Spaces
2.6 The Fore-conception of Completeness
2.7 Consider the Object
2.8 Images and Concepts and Going to Completion
2.9 The Anticipation of Completeness as a Driver of Practice
2.10 Thoughts on the Future of Hermeneutics
2.11. Entr’Acte No 2

Part Three: Hermeneutics: Towards A Poetics of Practice
3.0 Sprachlichkeit and Practice: Pre-figuring a Logic of Interaction
3.1 Introduction: The Forgotten Question of Practice
3.2 Practical Steps
3.3 Practice: A Historical Problematic: An Initial Orientation
3.4 Differential Space
3.5 Towards a Poetics of Hermeneutic Practice.
3.6 Hermeneutical Poetics and “The Turning Word”

Part Four: The Provocations of Practice
Introduction
4.1 Practice and the Instabilities of Understanding: Unattainable Completeness and Inevitable Failure
4.2 Practice and Repetition
4.3 Practice and Speculative Movement
4.4 The Negativity of Provocative Expectations
4.5 The Regulative Idea of Completion as a Mechanism of Hermeneutic Displacement
4.6 Regulative and Constituitive Completion
4.7 The Positivity of Negative Outcomes
4.8 The Confidence of Practice
4.9 Hermeneutic Defenestration
4.10 The Provoked Self
4.11 The Provocative Way of Hermeneutical Practice
4.12 Vectoring the Immeasurable
4.13 Reading as a Provocative Stratagem
4.14 The Returns of Aesthetic Completeness
4.15 The Dialectic of Word and Concept
4.16 Hermeneutical Openness as Praxis
4.17 Seeing Understandingly
4.18 Hermeneutical Praxis
4.19 The Transcendental Conditions of Hermeneutical Praxis
4.20 The Transcendental Basis of Negative Hermeneutics
4.21 Of First and Last Things

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