Unquiet Understanding: Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics (SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy) - Hardcover

"...[an] excellent book ... Davey's exposure of the subversive, provocative, and conflictive character of hermeneutics remains the most innovative aspect of his text." -- Symposium

"In Nick Davey, Gadamer's legacy finds a powerful advocate, who is similarly ready to distance himself from his subject, and his writings, in order the better to reconstruct their conceptual possibility, and thereby to provide the stronger account of what is philosophically distinctive in Gadamer's reinvention of hermeneutics ... [a] fine book..." -- British Journal of Aesthetics

"This is the most enlightening introduction available to Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics. It redefines transcendence and translation in hermeneutical terms, but it goes substantially beyond this to offer an introduction to many other topics in philosophical hermeneutics." -- Richard E. Palmer, coeditor of Dialogue and Deconstruction: The Gadamer-Derrida Encounter

"Elegantly written, this book provides an engaging, original, and challenging reading of Gadamer's hermeneutics. Davey offers an insightful clarification of the nature and specific contribution of hermeneutics as well as a revealing description of the wantonness of understanding." -- Jean Grondin, author of Sources of Hermeneutics