The Responsibility to Understand: Hermeneutical Contours of Ethical Life

by Theodore George

Few topics have received broader attention within contemporary philosophy than that of responsibility. Theodore George makes a novel case for a distinctive sense of responsibility at stake in the hermeneutical experiences of understanding and interpretation.
He argues for the significance of this hermeneutical responsibility in the context of our relations with things, animals and others, as well as political solidarity and the formation of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474467636
• ISBN13: 9781474467636
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.5"