This volume brings together a range of internationally respected scholars to address the need and possibilities for the renewal of hermeneutics today, when experience, existence, language, meaning, and interpretation are challenged by dramatically shifting cultural, technological, and ethical contexts.
This volume is comprised of contributions from internationally respected scholars dedicated to the theme of »The Future of Hermeneutics.« These contributions are gathered from research originally presented at the annual International Hermeneutics Symposium in 2023 and 2024. The topic means to draw attention not only to the relevance of research in hermeneutics for our future, but also current developments in hermeneutics that will shape research in the field to come. Hermeneutics originally taught us how to approach texts, authors, and the act of reading itself. Yet today, when experience, existence, language, meaning, and interpretation are challenged by shifting cultural, technological, and ethical contexts, hermeneutics calls for renewal, while staying true to its original calling to be an open and receptive practice of understanding. By attending to the dialogical nature of texts, the fragility of truth, the material circumstances of nature and culture, and the responsibilities of interpretation, hermeneutics offers new perspectives for engaging with the world, aiming to preserve the bonds between word and world, between experience, interpretation, and life. This volume, then, represents research completed in connection with the International Hermeneutics Symposium. The contributions to the symposium will continue to be published, even though from this year onwards in a different, updated form, no longer as a yearbook, but as a volume in a new series:
Post-Kantian European Philosophy (P-KEP).
Table of contents:
Gert-Jan van der Heiden,
Anna Novokhatko,
Theodore George: Introduction: Towards a Living Hermeneutics - 1.
Dennis J. Schmidt: What to Do? - 2.
Tobias Keiling: Mourning for Certainty: Historical Consciousness in the Anthropocene - 3.
Theodore George: To Become Undogmatic is to Learn to Live in Ambiguity: Gadamer and Figal on the Hermeneutics of Education (Bildung) - 4.
Mirela Oliva: How do Living Beings Reveal Things? On Figal's Aristotelian Hermeneutics of Life - 5.
Niall Keane: On Limits and Limitlessness: Revisiting Gadamer's Reflections on Being and Language - 6.
Eddo Evink: Sense, Understanding and Language in Gadamer and Nancy, together in a Hermeneutical Metaphysics of Play - 7.
Lucas Gronouwe: Interpretation Beyond the Nature-Culture Divide: A Latourian Transformation of the Hermeneutic Context - 8.
Gaetano Chiurazzi: Rethinking the Ontological Difference: Asymmetry, Subtraction, Contingency - 9.
Gert-Jan van der Heiden: From Judge to Historian: Witnessing as a Hermeneutic Concern - 10.
Adriani Milli Rodrigues: The Epistemology of Testimony and the Hermeneutics of Testimony in Dialogue: Approaching the Interpretive Nature of Testimony - 11.
Anna Novokhatko: Hermeneutics and Phenomenology of Body in Ancient Greek Comedy - 12.
James Risser: Rhythm-Life-Art - 13.
John Sallis: On Conducting
