Postmodern Hermeneutics: A Study of Language, Knowledge and Life-World

CONTENTS: Preface, 1. Postmodern Hermeneutics: An Introduction, 2. De-Transcendentalization of Kant: Heidegger, Apel and Habermas, The Role of Reason in Post-Metaphysical Thinking, Heidegger’s Interpretation of Kant Transcendental Hermeneutics, Metacritique, 3. Hermeneutics of Freedom and Facticity: Heidegger, Sartre and Gadamer, Three Structural Elements of Human Existence, Hermeneutics of Facticity, Worldliness, Situating Sartre’s Notion of Freedom, Facticity and Freedom: Are They Two Poles?, Gadamer’s Encounter with Heidegger on Hermeneutics of Facticity, Husserl’s Transcendental Subjectivity, Gadamer’s Critics: Habermas and Caputo, 4. The Paradigm of Philosophical Aesthetics: Heidegger and Gadamer, The Need for Interpretational Aesthetics, Heidegger’s Phenomenological Understanding of Aesthetics, Understanding Aesthetics through Language, Art and the “Forgetting of Being”, Participatory Aesthetics in Postmodern Understanding, Gadamer’s Aesthetic Approach through Hermeneutics, Aesthetic Conversation, Ontologoical Understanding of Aesthetics, The Relevance of the Beautiful, Transcending Aesthetics through Hermeneutics, 5. Philosophical Hermeneutics of Gadamer All Understanding Is Interpretation, Significance of Tradition, Conversation, Philosophical Hermeneutics Is Ontological, 6. Transcending the Forms of Philosophizing The Derridian Schema, Disassembling the Existing Structures of Philosophy, Derridian Methodology, Logocentrism as a Form of Philosophizing, The Derridian Critique, Derrida’s Critique of Phenomenology and Linguistic Philosophy as Forms of Philosophizing, Does Deconstruction Aim at Nothingness as a Form of Philosophizing?, 7. Language as Discourse: Ricoeur’s Hermeneutic Phenomenology, Distinction between Structure and Event, Difference between Sign and Symbol, Theory of Discourse, Metaphor and Reality, Distanciation, 8. Feminist Critique of Philosophy of Science, Science and Non-Science, Feminist Critique of the Philosophy of Science, Quine’s Naturalized Philosophy of Science, Feminist Epistemology, 9. Habermasian Understanding of Rationalization of the Life-World Knowledge Guided by Plurality of Interests, The Distinction between Action and Discourse, The Ideal Speech Situation, The Relation of Language and Practice to Communication, Shift from the Philosophy of Consciousness to Communicative Action through the Philosophy of Language, From Instrumental Reason to Communicative Rationality, The Linguistification of the Sacred System and Life-World: The Two Aspects of Human Existence, The Objective, Social and Subjective Worlds of Habermas, Cultural Traditions and the Life-world, 10. A Critique of Foucault’s Power and Knowledge Genealogical History, Plurality Forms of Knowledge, Historiography, The Significance of Power, 11. Solidarity or Objectivity?: Richard Rorty’s Methodology, Questioning Scientific Objectivity, Rorty as Anti-Foundationalist and Anti-Representationalist, Truth for the Sake of Community, Is There Relativism involved?, Our Conversational Partners, 12. Phenomenology of Language From Fodor to Dennett, Understanding Fodorian Project, Computational Theory of Mind, Classicism vs Connectionism, Fodor’s Theory of Intentional States and Processes, New-Dualism and Its Implication on Fodor’s, Computational Theory of Mind, Evaluating Fodor, Phenomenology of Consciousness, Bibliography, Index. …