Gadamer and Ricoeur Critical Horizons for Contemporary Hermeneutics

This book brings Gadamer and Ricoeur into a hermeneutical conversation with each other through some of their most important commentators. Twelve leading scholars deliver contemporary assessments of the history and promise of hermeneutical philosophy, providing focused discussion on the work of these two key hermeneutical thinkers. The book shows how the horizons of their thought at once support and question each other and how, in many ways, the work of these two pioneering philosophers defines the issues and agendas for the new century.

Introduction George H. Taylor and Francis J. Mootz III \ I. History \ 1. Destruktion-Konstruktion: Heidegger, Gadamer, Ricoeur P. Christopher Smith \ II. Engagements \ 2. The Dialectic of Belonging and Distanciation in Gadamer and RicoeurMerold Westphal \ 3. Hermeneutics as Project of Liberation: The Concept of Tradition in Paul Ricoeur and Hans-Georg Gadamer Andreea Deciu Ritivoi \ 4.Gadamer's Rhetorical Conception of Hermeneutics as the Key to Developing a Critical Hermeneutics Francis J. Mootz III \ 5. Understanding as Metaphoric, Not a Fusion of Horizons George H. Taylor \ 6. Where Is Muthos Hiding in Gadamer's Hermeneutics? Or, the Ontological Privilege of Emplotment John Arthos \ 7. Paul Ricoeur's and Hans-Georg Gadamer's Diverging Reflections on Recognition David Vessey \ 8. Is Phronesis Deinon? Ricoeur on Tragedy and Phronesis David H. Fisher \ III. Extensions \ 9. Ricoeur's Model of Translation and Responsible Political Practice Bernard P. Dauenhauer \ 10. Understanding the Body: The Relevance of Gadamer's and Ricoeur's View of the Body for Feminist Theory Louise D. Derksen and Annemie Halsema \ 11. Thing Hermeneutics David M. Kaplan \ 12. Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics and New Confucianism Kathleen Wright \ Bibliography \ List of Contributors \ Index \