Introduction to Philosophical Hermeneutics

by Jean Grondin

Book Overview

In this wide-ranging historical introduction to philosophical hermeneutics, Jean Grondin discusses the major figures from Philo to Habermas, analyzes conflicts between various interpretive schools, and provides a persuasive critique of Gadamer's view of hermeneutic history, though in other ways Gadamer's Truth and Method serves as a model for Grondin's approach.

Grondin begins with brief overviews of the pre-nineteenth-century thinkers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300070896
• ISBN13: 9780300070897
• Release Date: February 1997
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 9.0"