Dialogue and Deconstruction: The Gadamer-Derrida Encounter (Contemporary Contin Philosophy)

ISBN 10: 0791400093 / ISBN 13: 9780791400098

Published by State University of New York Press, 1989

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dialogue and Deconstruction: The Gadamer-Derrida Encounter (Contemporary Contin Philosophy)
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication Date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791400093
• ISBN 13: 9780791400098
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Text of and reflection on the 1981 encounter between Hans-Georg Gadamer and Jacques Derrida, which featured a dialogue between hermeneutics in Germany and post-structuralism in France.

Before the encounter in 1981 between Hans-Georg Gadamer and Jacques Derrida, there had been virtually no confrontation or dialogue between hermeneutics in Germany and post-structuralism in France, nor has there been since then. Part I of this book makes available for the first time in English the complete texts of the encounter at the Goethe Institute in Paris. This exchange raised such issues as Gadamer's relation to psychoanalytic interpretation, the questionability of texts, Heidegger's reading of Nietzsche, and the dialogical aspect of language.

Part II offers further reflections by Gadamer on the encounter itself and its relation of hermeneutics to deconstruction. Among the issues covered are Derrida's interpretation of "Destruktion" in Heidegger, Derrida's attack on logocentrism in Heidegger's interpretation of Nietzsche, and the relation of Heidegger, hermeneutics, and deconstruction to dialectic.

Part III offers commentaries on the encounter from a variety of perspectives. The authors assess the original encounter as well as Gadamer's subsequent reflections on it.

About the Author

Diane P. Michelfelder is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the California Polytechnic State University. Richard E. Palmer is Professor of Philosophy at MacMurray College.