Dialogue and Conversation: The Contribution of Gadamer, Habermas, Bohm and Others
Article from The Encyclopedia of Informal Education exploring the related notions of dialogue and conversation in the thinking of Hans-Georg Gadamer, Paulo Freire, Jürgen Habermas, and David Bohm.
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Education as the normative dimesion of philosophical Hermeneuticas
An article by David Blacker, that attempts to renew a dialogically-grounded humanism, an old educational ideal that finds the beginnings of a compelling and novel defense in the philosophical hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer.
(Added: Thu Jan 01 2004) ID 117170
Site about the interaction of hermeneutics and foundationalism. The interaction of hermeneutics and foundationalism is the same as the interaction of interpretation and reality. Our connection to reality may underdetermine the interpretation, leaving a range of possibilities, but it does impose a limit to interpretation, determining a certain range. What hermeneutics and foundationalism really represent, however, is something logically more precise. Hermeneutics is about interpretation, which is about meaning, which is about what is understood. Foundationalism is about reality, which is about truth, which is about what is known.
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An autonomous, international, and interdisciplinary research institute, founded to foster and articulate a general hermeneutics, a task demanding an intensive interdisciplinary collaboration on a level that does not yet exist in the contemporary university. It has a particular concentration in philosophy, religious studies, and comparative literature.
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This volume provides thoughtful answers to a surprisingly large number of important questions in the rhetoric of science and in rhetorical theory generally. Unlike most anthologies, there is no issue of continuity in this one. It contains treatments of the fields most central issues and has a group of well-known authors who, in fact, have helped to define the field. It should have a wide readership for the reason of its topical interest, its attention to basic theoretical issues, and its presentation of high quality academic debate.
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Richard Palmer has been one of America's leading experts in Hermeneutic philosophy for decades. His textbook, "Hermeneutics" is well know to all who have studied in the field. His personal webpage contains a wealth of hermeneutic information, including the full text of four articles and an extensive bibliographic resource for those studying Gadamer.
(Added: Thu Jan 01 2004) ID 117177
Article by Gary B. Madison at the conference, "After Post-modernism," highlighting the moral optimism of the hermeneutic branch of postmodern thought in opposition to "the dead-end of relativism and nihilism" characterized by poststructuralism and neopragmatism.
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