Beyond Interpretation: The Meaning of Hermeneutics for Philosophy

by Gianni Vattimo

Book Overview

Hermeneutics has had a pervasive influence on contemporary philosophy, social and cultural theory, literary criticism, and aesthetics. It has become so widespread an instrument that its very meaning threatens to dissolve into vague generalities, empty of significance and wedded to a shallow relativism. In this book one of Europe's foremost contemporary philosophers provides hermeneutics with a fresh relevance and a substantive account of its philosophical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804729948
• ISBN13: 9780804729949
• Release Date: June 1997
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 140 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"