Pol Vandevelde

The Ethics of Interpretation

From Charity as a Principle to Love as a Hermeneutic Imperative

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Produktbeschreibung

This book discusses the ethical dimension of the interpretation of texts and events. Its purpose is not to address the neutrality or ideological biases of interpreters, but rather to discuss the underlying issue of the intervention of interpreters into the process of interpretation.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 314
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. März 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 603g
• ISBN-13: 9781032390154
• ISBN-10: 1032390158
• Artikelnr.: 66711581

Autorenporträt

Pol Vandevelde is Professor of Philosophy at Marquette University, USA. He specializes in 19th- and 20th- century European philosophy, theory of interpretation, critical theory, philosophy of knowledge, phenomenology, and hermeneutics. He is the author of three books including The Task of the Interpreter: Text, Meaning, and Negotiation (2005) and Heidegger and the Romantics: The Literary Invention of Meaning (Routledge, 2012, awarded the Prix Mercier from the Université de Louvain).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: What is the Ethics of Interpretation? Part 1: Two Versions of
the Principle of Charity in Interpretation: Gadamer and Davidson 1.
Gadamer's Dialogical Interpretation 2. Davidson's Radical Interpretation:
Charity and Triangulation Part 2: Two Versions of a Poetics of Truth in
Interpretation: Ricoeur and Foucault 3. Ricoeur's Interpretive Truth:
Attestation 4. Foucault's Interpretive Truth: Parrhesia Part 3: Two
Versions of What Regulates Interpretation: Validity Claims and Love 5. The
Ethics of Discussion: Karl-Otto Apel's Program 6. Benevolence or Love as
both a Moral and an Epistemic Virtue Conclusion: Love as a Hermeneutic
Imperative