Now online a new article for the Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology by James Risser (Philosophy, Seattle University).
James Risser – “Crossings: Hermeneutics as Passage”
JBSP (Received 02 Sep 2024, Accepted 07 Dec 2024, Published online: 16 Dec 2024).
Abstract: This paper follows the implications of Gadamer’s hermeneutics after Truth and Method in which the forming of social life, and with it the idea of worldly understanding, receives greater attention. I argue that the emphasis in his later writings on worldly understanding draws less on the idea of the hermeneutic circle and problematic of the Geisteswissenschaften in which the concept of tradition is prominent than on the movement in language and the encounter with the other. As in the example of translation, I argue that this movement has the character of passage from one place to another that holds within it an element of opacity. The development of this issue draws on a comparative analysis with the work of the Caribbean philosopher Édouard Glissant. From this analysis I show how Gadamer’s hermeneutics addresses the issue of understanding across cultures and in mixed cultures.
Full article: https://doi.org/10.1080/00071773.2024.2442120
James Risser, Philosophy, Seattle University, Seattle, WA, USA
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