Life as understanding

Zusammenfassung: In this paper I take up the "claim to universality" of hermeneutics, as put forth by Hans-Georg Gadamer; the aim is to grasp the "life that can understand," to grasp it in its essence and in terms of understanding. In this way I deal critically with Gadamer's (and Heidegger's) idea that all understanding ist "self-understanding" and work out the dependence of understanding on the other, on the "hermeneutic object" (Gegenstand) of understanding. But a "hermeneutic object" (Gegenstand) is not a "mere object" (Objekt). On the basis of this distinction, I develop, in conclusion, a critical reflection on the self-objectification of the human in those interpretations of human life that are oriented solely to natural science. Self-objectification is a wrongly directed understanding and can therefore be corrected on the basis of a developed concept of life as understanding

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• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Research in phenomenology 34 (2004), S. [20] - 30

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Philosophie
• Keyword: Hermeneutik ; Online-Ressource

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Freiburg
• (who): Universität
• (when): 2005
• Creator: Figal, Günter

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• URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:25-freidok-19870
• Rights: Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.