Hermeneutics between History and Philosophy

Hermeneutics between History and Philosophy collects together Gadamer's remaining important untranslated writings on the problem of history and the major philosophical traditions of the 20th century from the standpoint of hermeneutics. In these writings, Gadamer examines important thinkers such as Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Bourdieu and Habermas and their ongoing legacies.

This volume includes a preface by the editors and translators, presenting the structure of the volume, and a substantial introduction situating Gadamer's particular project and examining the place of hermeneutics in relation to the disciplines of history and philosophy in the 20th century. The translation is followed by a glossary of German terms and Greek and Latin expressions, as well as a bibliography of all the works cited and alluded to by Gadamer. Together, the essays and critical apparatus provide an overarching account of Gadamer's understanding of human life as embedded within history.

Part I: Introduction: Hermeneutics Between History and Philosophy Pol Vandevelde and Arun Iyer
Introduction by translators

I. History as a Problem: On Being Historically Affected
1. Is There a Causality in History?
2. Historicity and Truth
3. The History of the Universe and the Historicity of the Human Beings
4. A World Without History?
5. The Old and the New
6. Death as a Question

II. The Impetus for Thinking Hermeneutically: On the Task of Dilthey
7. The Problem of Dilthey: Between Romanticism and Positivism
8. Dilthey and Ortega: The Philosophy of Life
9. Hermeneutics and the Diltheyan School

III. Confronting Other Intellectual Movements and Disciplines
10. Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity, Subject and Person
11. On the Contemporary Relevance of Husserl's Phenomenology
12. "Being and Nothingness" (Jean-Paul Sartre)
13. Heidegger and Sociology (Bourdieu and Habermas)
14. Hermeneutics On the Trail

IV Hermeneutics of Beginnings and Returns: The Case of Heidegger
15. Remembering Heidegger's Beginnings
16. The Turn in the Path
17. On the Beginning of Thought
18. On the Way Back to the Beginning

Index