Self-Understanding and Lifeworld: Basic Traits of a Phenomenological Hermeneutics (Studies in Continental Thought) - Hardcover

Gander, Hans-Helmuth

 
9780253025555: Self-Understanding and Lifeworld: Basic Traits of a Phenomenological Hermeneutics (Studies in Continental Thought)

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What are the foundations of human self-understanding and the value of responsible philosophical questioning? Focusing on Heidegger's early work on facticity, historicity, and the phenomenological hermeneutics of factical-historical life, Hans-Helmuth Gander develops an idea of understanding that reflects our connection with the world and other, and thus invites deep consideration of phenomenology, hermeneutics, and deconstruction. He draws usefully on Husserl's phenomenology and provides grounds for exchange with Descartes, Dilthey, Nietzsche, Gadamer, Ricoeur, and Foucault. On the way to developing a contemporary hermeneutical philosophy, Gander clarifies the human relation to self in and through conversation with Heidegger's early hermeneutics. Questions about reading and writing then follow as these are the very actions that structure human self-understanding and world understanding.

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Hans-Helmuth Gander is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Husserl Archive at the University of Freiburg.

Ryan Drake is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fairfield University in Connecticut. He specializes in 20th century European philosophy and ancient philosophy.

Joshua Rayman is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Florida. He is author of Kant on Sublimity and Morality.

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Self-understanding and lifeworld

Basic Traits of a Phenomenological Hermeneutics

By Hans-Helmuth Gander, Ryan Drake, Joshua Rayman

Indiana University Press

Copyright © 2001 Vittorio Klostermann GmbH, Frankfurt am Main
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ISBN: 978-0-253-02555-5

Contents

Translators' Introduction, xiii,
Preface, xix,
INTRODUCTION,
§ 1. Exposition of the Connection between Selfhood, Lifeworld, and History, 1,
§ 2. Conception and Outline of the Treatise with an Excursus on the Paratextual Functions of Remarks, 7,
PART ONE IN THE NETWORK OF TEXTS: TOWARD THE PERSPECTIVE CHARACTER OF UNDERSTANDING,
§ 3. Inception and Beginning: Toward a Forestructure of Understanding, 21,
§ 4. Approaching the Question of Interpretation: On the Relation of "Author-Text-Reader", 28,
§ 5. On the Relation of Writing and Reading to Self-Formation, 29,
§ 6. The Text as a Connection of Sense in the Horizon of the Occurrence of Tradition as Effective History, 32,
§ 7. In the Governing Network of Discourse, 36,
§ 8. The Sense-Creating Potential of Texts: The Modification of the World, 44,
§ 9. Excursus on the Metaphor of the "Book of the World", 51,
§ 10. In the Network of Tradition: On Understanding as an Incursion into the Current of Texts, 53,
§ 11. On the Interpretive Character of Knowledge in the Wake of the Historicity of Understanding, 61,
§ 12. Parenthesis on the Discourse of Metaphysics "As Such" as a Problem of an Epochal Revaluation in View of a Signature of the Present, 66,
§ 13. Critical Remarks on the Concept of an Absolute Reason, 73,
PART TWO I AND WORLD: THE QUESTION CONCERNING THE GROUND OF PHILOSOPHY,
CHAPTER ONE On the Search for the Certainty of the 'I',
§ 14. Toward the Task of a Hermeneutical Interpretation of the Concept and Its Relation to Everyday Experience: An Approximation, 79,
§ 15. Wonder and Doubt: On the Entry Point of Philosophical Reflection, 82,
§ 16. Under the Spell of Certainty: Descartes's Self-Certainty of the "I am" as a Hermeneutical Problem, 88,
§ 17. The Ontological Positioning of the Cartesian Ego between Acquisition of the Self and Loss of the World, 99,
CHAPTER TWO On Life in Lifeworlds: Critical Considerations of Husserl's Phenomenology of the Lifeworld,
§ 18. The Concept of "Lifeworld" as an Indication of the Problem, 111,
§ 19. Husserl's Recourse to [TEXT NOT REPDOCUBLE IN ASCII] as an "Irruption into the Theoretical Attitude", 116,
§ 20. The Problem of Objectivism in the Tension between [TEXT NOT REPDOCUBLE IN ASCII] and [TEXT NOT REPDOCUBLE IN ASCII], 119,
§ 21. Toward a Philosophical Thematization of Natural Life-in-the-World, 126,
§ 22. On Husserl's Transcendental Self-Grounding of Philosophy with a View to the Question of the World, 129,
§ 23. Husserl's Application of the Task of a Lifeworldly Ontology, 140,
§ 24. The Function of History in Husserl's Transcendental-Phenomenological Conception, 152,
PART THREE SELF-UNDERSTANDING AND THE HISTORICAL WORLD: BASIC TRAITS OF A HERMENEUTICAL ONTOLOGY OF FACTICITY,
CHAPTER ONE The Hermeneutical Turn: Heidegger's Critical Dialogue with Husserlian Phenomenology,
§ 25. Husserl versus Heidegger: On Situating their Disagreement, 171,
§ 26. The Hermeneutical Stance on a Second View, 175,
§ 27. The "Blind Spot" in the Phenomenological Eye: Heidegger's Critique of Husserl with a View to the Structure of Care,
§ 28. The Metamorphosis of Phenomenology into the Hermeneutical,
§ 29. The Function and Relation of the Hermeneutical Ontology of Facticity, Fundamental Ontology, and Metontology, 227,
§ 30. Aspects of a Contemporary Philosophical Situating of the Discourse on Facticity, 236,
CHAPTER TWO The Experiental Structure of the Self: Toward a Hermeneutics of Factical Historical Life,
§ 31. The Leap into the World: On Outlining the Factical-Hermeneutical Concept of Experience, 245,
§ 32. Analysis of Environmental Experience, 258,
§ 33. Remarks on the Problematic of the Alien, 266,
§ 34. The Self-World as the Center of Life-Relations, 278,
§ 35. The Having-of-Oneself within the Field of Tension between Winning and Losing Oneself, 295,
§ 36. The Structure of the Self as a Function of Life-Experience, 300,
§ 37. On the Status of a Hermeneutics of Facticity as Ontological Hermeneutics, 319,
CHAPTER THREE Application-Destruktion-History: Hermeneutical Sketches of a Philosophy of the Situation,
§ 38. Hermeneutical Application, 329,
§ 39. The Critical Sense: On the Task of Phenomenological Destruktion, 340,
§ 40. History as the Organon of Understanding Life, 347,
OPEN END,
§ 41. Retrospective Reflections on the World-Conceptual Relevance of a Hermeneutics of Facticity, 363,
Bibliography, 369,
Index, 399,


CHAPTER 1

PART ONE

IN THE NETWORK OF TEXTS: TOWARD THE PERSPECTIVE CHARACTER OF UNDERSTANDING

In writing the point is not to manifest or exalt the act of writing, nor is it to pin a subject in language; it is rather a question of creating a space into which the writing subject constantly disappears.

Michel Foucault

Every point of view is the apex of an inverted pyramid, whose base is indeterminable.

Fernando Pessoa


§ 3. Inception and Beginning: Toward a Forestructure of Understanding

One is to write one's first sentence in such a way that the reader will want, without fail, to read the second sentence. So reads the advice that William Faulkner imparted to anyone who wishes to embark on the adventure of writing a text. Truthfully, this is no easy demand to fulfill, especially if one considers that — regarded from outside — at first something entirely arbitrary belongs to every beginning. And if it is adequate to satisfy the Faulknerian precept, it thus remains that such a beginning in every case possesses something compelling or seductive, though not compulsory in the strict sense.

Whether or not the starting point of a text can be justified is only to be decided through reading. For the reader whose own presuppositions the text can never divine, there stands its conclusion, which perhaps and in the best case with further development aids the decision whether or not the reader grants plausibility, indeed, the force of conviction, to the thoughts developed in the text by the author. In the question of reader recognition, a text or its author, seen correctly, may not finally be able to claim as much, insofar as concerns texts, as the so-called Holy Books or legal texts claim the force of the authoritative validity ascribed to them from their consent, indeed obedience. By contrast, for texts without such status and even those that one usually calls philosophical, the demand for consent falls away in advance. It develops itself or fails to develop on the reader's side to the degree of his readiness to enter into discussion with what is there.

What is there presents itself as text — taking text quite conventionally as that corresponding to the particular form of notation of a determinate written language — even if it is there as an image in the intended form of a complete totality of sense, and is thereby equally included in a network of subtextual and extratextual...

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