Reflections on hermeneutics and translocality

Abstract: "This paper reflects on the issues that were brought to the Roundtable on Hermeneutics and Translocality held at the ZMO in 2006. I review the successive ways in which I have drawn on the hermeneutic philosophical tradition as an anthropologist, emphasing the ethical dimension. Translocality heightens the hermeneutic problem but does not radically change it; it may entail recognizing that everything is always already pretranslated. In reflecting on the task and means of anthropology, I briefly juxtapose Gadamer’s admirable deference or modesty to Ricoeur’s dialectic of appropriation and distanciation and to what Cavell calls the arrogation of voice." [author´s abstract]

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource, 7 S.
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: unbekannt

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: ZMO Working Papers ; Bd. 4

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Philosophie

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Berlin
• (when): 2011
• Creator: Lambek, Michael
• Contributor: Zentrum Moderner Orient

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-334237
• Rights: Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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