The Cambridge Companion to Hermeneutics

Explores the relevance of hermeneutics for modern human sciences, its history and development, and its key philosophical debates.

Michael N. Forster (Edited by), Kristin Gjesdal (Edited by)

9781316638170, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 3 January 2019

432 pages
22.8 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.62 kg

Hermeneutics, the study of interpretation, is an essential and valuable branch of philosophy. Hermeneutics is also a central component of the methodology of the social sciences and the humanities, for example historiography, anthropology, art history, and literary criticism. In a sequence of accessible chapters, contributors across the human sciences explain the leading concepts and ideas of hermeneutics, the historical development of the field, the importance of hermeneutics in philosophy today, and the ways in which it can address contemporary concerns including intercultural relations, relations between subcultures within a single society, and relations across race and gender. Clearly structured and written in non-technical language, this Companion will be an important contribution to a growing field of study.

Introduction
1. Hermeneutics and theology Christoph Bultmann
2. Hermeneutics and nature Dalia Nassar
3. Hermeneutics and romanticism Fred Rush
4. Hermeneutics and German idealism Paul Redding
5. Hermeneutics and history John H. Zammito
6. Hermeneutics and positivism Frederick C. Beiser
7. Hermeneutics: Nietzschean approaches Paul Katsafanas
8. Hermeneutics and psychoanalysis Sebastian Gardner
9. Hermeneutics and phenomenology Benjamin Crowe
10. Hermeneutics and critical theory Georgia Warnke
11. Hermeneutics: francophone approaches Michael N. Forster
12. Hermeneutics: non-Western approaches Kai Marchal
13. Hermeneutics and literature Jonathan Culler
14. Hermeneutics and law Ralf Poscher
15. Hermeneutics and the human sciences Kristin Gjesdal.

Subject Areas: Philosophy [HP]