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Objectivity

By Günter Figal

Objectivity

By Günter Figal

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Appearing for the first time in English, Günter Figal's groundbreaking book in the tradition of philosophical hermeneutics offers original perspectives on perennial philosophical problems.Günter Figal has long been recognized as one of the most insightful interpreters working in the tradition of philosophical hermeneutics and its leading themes concerned with ancient Greek thought, art, language, and history. With this book, Figal presses this tradition of philosophical hermeneutics in new directions. In his effort to forge philosophical hermeneutics into a hermeneutical philosophy, Figal develops an original critique of the objectification of the world that emerges in modernity as the first stage in his systematic treatment of the elements of experience hermeneutically understood. Breaking through the prejudices of modernity, but not sacrificing the importance and challenge of the objective world that confronts us and is in need of interpretation, Figal reorients how it is that philosophy should take up some of its most longstanding and stubborn questions. World, object, space, language, freedom, time, and life are refreshed as philosophical notions here since they are each regarded as elements of human life engaged in the task assigned to each of us-the task of understanding ourselves and our world.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
472
Release Date:
2011-07-02
Publication Date:
2011-07-02
Publisher:
SUNY Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1438432062
ISBN13:
9781438432069
Weight:
760 g
Height:
152 cm
Width:
229 cm
Thickness:
28 cm
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