Hermeneutics in Post-War Continental European Philosophy Chapter uri icon

abstract

  • Taken in general terms, hermeneutics refers to the study of understanding and interpretation, and, traditionally, this study focuses on considerations of the art, method, and foundations of research in the arts and humanities. The study of hermeneutics has been developed and applied in a number of areas of scholarly inquiry, such as biblical exegesis, literary studies, legal studies, and the medical humanities. In the context of post-war Continental European thought, however, hermeneutics is brought into a novel philosophical context and, with this, comes to designate a philosophical movement or, at least, a number of related philosophers and themes concerned with the scope and limits of phenomenology, the character of human existence, the relation of the natural sciences and humanities, as well as a range of interrelated matters in the philosophy of history, the philosophy of language, the philosophy of art and aesthetics, practical philosophy, as well as in epistemology and the theory of meaning.

author list (cited authors)

  • Liakos, D., & George, T.

complete list of authors

  • Liakos, D||George, T

editor list (cited editors)

  • Becker, K., & Thomson, I.

Book Title

  • The Cambridge History of Philosophy, 1945-2015

publication date

  • January 2019