International Yearbook for Hermeneutics/Internationales Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik

The International Yearbook for Hermeneutics represents one of the prominent currents in contemporary philosophy as well as in bordering disciplines. It gathers studies on questions concerning understanding and interpretation in all relevant fields, including philosophy, theology, jurisprudence, theory of science as well as literary and cultural studies. The Yearbook includes contributions to current debates and on the history of ideas from antiquity to the present. This volume focusses on »Logos.«Focus: Logos
John Sallis: The Play of Translation - Bernhard Zimmermann: Von der Gewaltherrschaft der Rede. Die Logos-Theorie des Sophisten Gorgias - Günter Figal: Die Offenheit des Logos - Anna Novokhatko: The Terminology of Early Text Exegesis - Jens Halfwassen: Die Flucht in die Logoi. Platons Kritik am Naturalismus - Gert-Jan van der Heiden: To Speak for the Speechless: On Erwin Mortier's While the Gods Were Sleeping - Jennifer Mensch: Songs of Nature: From Philosophy of Language to Philosophical Anthropology in Herder and Humboldt - Theodor George: Birth cry - or, the hermeneutics of facticity, from the finitude of language to the body in pain

Topic: Hermeneutical Perspectives on Work and Leisure
Johannes Achill Niederhauser: Cum Dignitate Otium. On the Possibility of Dignified Idleness - Christoph Schuringa: Animal Laborans: Arendt and Weil on Marx - Joseph R. Shafer: The Active Leisure of the Letter in Jacques Rancière - Benjamin Varas: Nietzsche on Leisure and the Tasks of Moral Philosophy

Contributions
Burkhard Liebsch: Zur Tradition der Hermeneutik in der Gegenwart einer politischen Kultur des Dissenses. Skizze einer polemogenen Problemlage - Werner Stegmaier: Spielräume der Demokratie. Orientierung in Moral und Politik