The Hermeneutics of Original Argument: Demonstration, Dialectic, Rhetoric (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy) - Softcover

Smith, P. Christopher

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810116081 ISBN 13: 9780810116085

Publisher: Northwestern University Press, 1998

Synopsis

What, precisely, does the word hermeneutics mean? And in what sense can one speak of the hermeneutics of original argument? In The Hermeneutics of Original Argument, P. Christopher Smith explores these questions in building upon Heidegger's hermeneutical thought. In applying Heidegger's basic notion that hermeneutics is not a doctrine of interpretation but is its actual execution, Christopher Smith penetrates the abstractions that conceal original argument and explores the structure and nature of argument as it originally occurs.

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Smith is professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.

Edition details

• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0810116081
• ISBN 13: 9780810116085
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 364
• Editor: McCumber John, Kleinberg-Levin David Michael