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

Smith, P. Christopher

ISBN 10: 0810116081 / ISBN 13: 9780810116085

Published by Northwestern University Press, 1998

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Hermeneutics of Original Argument: Demonstration, Dialectic, Rhetoric (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810116081
• ISBN 13: 9780810116085
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New
• Book Type: book

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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.

About the Author

P. CHRISTOPHER SMITH is professor of philosophy at the University of Massachusetts at Lowell.