The life of understanding : a contemporary hermeneutics

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Title:

The life of understanding : a contemporary hermeneutics

Author:

Risser, James, 1946-

ISBN:

9780253002143

9780253002198

Personal Author:

Risser, James, 1946-

Publication Information:

Bloomington ; Indianapolis : Indiana University Press, c2012.

Physical Description:

viii, 142 p. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Studies in Continental thought

Contents:

Platonic gestures -- Memory and life: hermeneutics as convalescence -- Distressed memory: hermeneutics and the venture of the foreign -- Beyond distress: toward a community of memory -- Fabric of life: dialectics, discourse, and the art of weaving -- Severed threads: the incapacity of language -- Reading beyond the letter: on memory and writing -- Flash of beauty.

Personal Subject:

Plato.

Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 1900-2002.

Subject Term:

Hermeneutics.

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Summary

In Gadamer's hermeneutics, interpretation is inseparable from the broader concern of making one's way in life. In this book, James Risser builds on this insight about the juxtaposition of human living and the act of understanding by tracing hermeneutics back to the basic experience of philosophy as defined by Plato. For Risser, Plato provides resources for new directions in hermeneutics and new possibilities for "the life of understanding" and "the understanding of life." Risser places Gadamer in dialogue with Plato, with the issue of memory as a conceptual focus. He develops themes pertaining to hermeneutics such as retrieval as a matter of convalescence, exile as a venture into the foreign, formation with respect to oneself and to life with others, the experience of language in hermeneutics, and the relationship between speaking and writing.