Hermeneutics
Action, Embodied Mind, and Life World
Combines phenomenology with the "enactivist" approach to consciousness theory and recent emotion research to explore the way self-motivated action plans shape selective attention, exploration, and ultimately the mind's interpretation of reality - in philosophy, psychology, cultural awareness, and our personal lives.
A Sourcebook in Classical Confucian Philosophy
Applies a method of comparative cultural hermeneutics to let the tradition speak on its own terms.
A Conceptual Lexicon for Classical Confucian Philosophy
Uses a comparative hermeneutical method to explain the most important terms in the classical Confucian philosophical texts, in an effort to allow the tradition to speak on its own terms.
Time in Exile
Proposes a theoretically rich treatment of temporality within exile as "gerundive" time.
Beyond the Subject
An original reading of Nietzsche and Heidegger that paved the way for Vattimo's conception of weak thought.
Life as Insinuation
A holistic reinterpretation of Santayana’s thought in terms of a dramatic philosophy of life.
Thinking the Inexhaustible
Essays address the major themes of Pareyson’s hermeneutic philosophy in the context of his existentialist approach to personhood.
The Experience of Truth
Advances a hermeneutic conception of truth as a mode of being, in dialogue with Aristotle, Nietzsche, Gadamer, Heidegger, Putnam, and Rorty.
Between Philosophy and Non-Philosophy
Engages the work and career of the philosopher Hugh J. Silverman.
Doing Time
Proposes that cinematic time is not a fixed idea, but a dynamic exchange between film and viewer.
Nihilism and Metaphysics
An assessment and reevaluation of nihilism’s ascendency over metaphysics.
Truth and Interpretation
A resolute defense of philosophy and hermeneutics against the threats of dogmatism and relativism.
Emplotting Virtue
A rich hermeneutic account of the way virtue is understood and developed.
Thinking the Poetic Measure of Justice
A new reading of justice engaging the work of two philosophical poets who stand in conversation with the work of Martin Heidegger.
Weak Thought
Foundational collection on one of the most influential concepts to emerge from contemporary Italian philosophy.
Utopia of Understanding
A hermeneutics of language after Auschwitz.
Radical Ecopsychology, Second Edition
Expanded new edition of a classic examination of the psychological roots of our ecological crisis.
The Possible Present
A practical hermeneutics of time.
What Is Enlightenment
A cross-cultural work which reinvigorates the consideration of enlightenment.
Objectivity
Appearing for the first time in English, Günter Figal’s groundbreaking book in the tradition of philosophical hermeneutics offers original perspectives on perennial philosophical problems.
Between Nihilism and Politics
Essays describe Italian philosopher Gianni Vattimo’s unique and radical hermeneutic philosophy.
Sense and Finitude
Takes Heidegger’s later thought as a point of departure for exploring the boundaries of post-conceptual thinking.
Images of Thought
Explores the relationship between philosophy and art through the work of Cuban American artist Carlos Estévez.
Rethinking Facticity
Examines the historical context and contemporary relevance of facticity.
The Gathering of Reason
This second edition of the author's classic study of Kant's First Critique includes a new preface and extensive afterword.
Radical Ecopsychology
Shows the psychological roots of our ecological crisis.
Philosophy at the Boundary of Reason
Using Ricoeur's ethicomoral position, advances an alternative, more viable ethics than that of deconstruction.
Interrogating the Tradition
Constitutes a thoughtful survey of contemporary hermeneutics in its historical context.
Formative Judaism
Examines the history, philosophy and hermeneutics, and law and literature of formative Judaism.
Comparative Hermeneutics of Rabbinic Judaism, The, Volume Seven
Systematic account of the hermeneutics of comparison and contrast of Rabbinic Judaism.
Comparative Hermeneutics of Rabbinic Judaism, The, Volume Six
Systematic account of the hermeneutics of comparison and contrast of Rabbinic Judaism.
Comparative Hermeneutics of Rabbinic Judaism, The, Volume Four
Systematic account of the hermeneutics of comparison and contrast of Rabbinic Judaism.
Comparative Hermeneutics of Rabbinic Judaism, The, Volume Two
Systematic account of the hermeneutics of comparison and contrast of Rabbinic Judaism.
Comparative Hermeneutics of Rabbinic Judaism, The, Volume Three
Systematic account of the hermeneutics of comparison and contrast of Rabbinic Judaism.
Comparative Hermeneutics of Rabbinic Judaism, The, Volume Five
Systematic account of the hermeneutics of comparison and contrast of Rabbinic Judaism.
Comparative Hermeneutics of Rabbinic Judaism, The, Volume Eight
Systematic account of the hermeneutics of comparison and contrast of Rabbinic Judaism.
Comparative Hermeneutics of Rabbinic Judaism, The, Volume One
Systematic account of the hermeneutics of comparison and contrast of Rabbinic Judaism.
Sociology and Interpretation
Explores the contributions to interpretive sociology of major Continental social theorists and examines the ways in which these individuals enrich our understanding of the art of being human.
Sources of Hermeneutics
This book provides an introduction to the historical sources of philosophical hermeneutics as it has come to fruition in the work of Heidegger and Gadamer.
Hermeneutics, Citizenship, and the Public Sphere
This book sheds new light on the question of democratic politics by proposing a hermeneutic conception of citizenship and the public sphere. At the same time, it presents a critique of the postmodern ...
Merleau-Ponty, Hermeneutics, and Postmodernism
Opens up new dimensions in the philosophical thought of Merleau-Ponty and addresses contemporary issues concerning interpretation theory and postmodernity.
Recovery of the Measure
"The world is as we interpret it. " Arguing that this assumption is a major and pervasive error, Neville demonstrates that the world is the measure of our interpretations. Distinguishing two traditions ...