Objectivity : The Hermeneutical and Philosophy

Figal, Gunter; George, Theodore D. (TRN)

ISBN 10: 1438432062 / ISBN 13: 9781438432069

Published by State University of New York Press, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Objectivity : The Hermeneutical and Philosophy
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1438432062
• ISBN 13: 9781438432069
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Günter Figal has long been recognized as one of the most insightful interpreters working in the tradition of philosophical hermeneutics and its leading themes concerned with ancient Greek thought, art, language, and history. With this book, Figal presses this tradition of philosophical hermeneutics in new directions. In his effort to forge philosophical hermeneutics into a hermeneutical philosophy, Figal develops an original critique of the objectification of the world that emerges in modernity as the first stage in his systematic treatment of the elements of experience hermeneutically understood. Breaking through the prejudices of modernity, but not sacrificing the importance and challenge of the objective world that confronts us and is in need of interpretation, Figal reorients how it is that philosophy should take up some of its most longstanding and stubborn questions. World, object, space, language, freedom, time, and life are refreshed as philosophical notions here since they are each regarded as elements of human life engaged in the task assigned to each of us—the task of understanding ourselves and our world.

About the Author

Günter Figal is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Freiburg, Germany, where he holds the Husserl and Heidegger Chair. He is the author of several books, including For a Philosophy of Freedom and Strife: Politics, Aesthetics, Metaphysics, also published by SUNY Press. Theodore D. George is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Tragedies of Spirit: Tracing Finitude in Hegel's Phenomenology, also published by SUNY Press.