Gander Hans-Helmuth - The Routledge Companion to Hermeneutics

Hermeneutics is a major theoretical and practical form of intellectual inquiry, central not only to philosophy but many other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. With phenomenology and existentialism, it was also one of the twentieth centurys most important philosophical movements and included major thinkers such as Heidegger, Gadamer and Ricoeur.

The Routledge Companion to Hermeneutics is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key philosophers, topics and themes of this exciting subject and is the first volume of its kind. Comprising over fifty chapters by a team of international contributors, the Companion is divided into five parts:

• main figures in the hermeneutical tradition movement, including Heidegger, Gadamer and Ricoeur;
• main topics in hermeneutics such as language, truth, relativism and history;
• the engagement of hermeneutics with central disciplines such as literature, religion, race and gender, and art;
• hermeneutics and world philosophies including Asian, Islamic and Judaic thought;
• hermeneutic challenges and debates, such as critical theory, structuralism and phenomenology.

Jeff Malpas is Distinguished Professor at the University of Tasmania, Australia and Visiting Distinguished Professor at LaTrobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

Hans-Helmuth Gander is Professor of Philosophy at Albert-Ludwigs-Universitt Freiburg, Germany

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