Variations on Truth
Approaches in Contemporary Phenomenology
Published on 29. September 2011
Book
Hardback
256 pages
978-1-4411-1290-3 (ISBN)
Description
Bringing together leading scholars from across the world, this is a comprehensive survey of the latest phenomenological research into the perennial philosophical problem of truth. Starting with an historical introduction chronicling the variations on truth at play in the Phenomenological tradition, the book explores how Husserls methodology equips us with the tools to thoroughly explore notions of truth, reality and knowledge. From these foundations, the book goes on to explore and extend the range of approaches that contemporary phenomenological research opens up in the face of the most profound ontological and epistemological questions raised by the tradition. In the final section, the authors go further still and explore how phenomenology relates to other variations on truth offered up by hermeneutic, deconstructive and narrative approaches.Across the 12 essays collected in this volume, Variations on Truth explores and maps a comprehensive and rigorous alternative to mainstream analytic discussions of truth, reality and understanding.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
549 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-4411-1290-3 (9781441112903)
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Persons
Kevin Hermberg currently teaches philosophy at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and he has taught at Carthage College and Marquette University. Pol Vandevelde is Professor of Philosophy at Marquette University, USA. His previous publications include Etre et Discours: La question du langage dans l'itineraire de Heidegger (1927-1938) (Academie Royale de Belgique, 1994) and The Task of the Interpreter: Text, Meaning, and Negotiation (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005).
Content
Part I: Introduction; 1. Historical Perspective on the Variations of Truth Pol Vandvelde; Part II: Husserlian Resources - Reduction, Imagination, Transcendental Idealism; 2. Does Husserl Have a Principle of Reducibility? Dominique Pradelle; 3. The Seduction of Images: A Look at the Role of Images in Husserl's Phenomenology John Brough; 4. 'Natural Attitude' and Transcendental Idealism: The Transition Problem -Jean-Francois Lavigne; Part III: Toward a Broadened Ontology and Epistemology - Nature, Judgement, Intersubjectivity, History; 5. Nature, Truth and Dialectic: Merleau-Ponty's Heraclitean Theory of Truth Shazad Akhtar; 6. The Role of Infinite Judgement in Phenomenological Conceptions of Truth Andrew Cutrofello and Russell Newstadt; 7. Husserl's Social Epistemology Kevin Hermberg; 8. Historicity as a Phenomenological-Hermeneutical Category of Truth: Modernity as a Philosophical Problem Burt Hopkins; Part IV: The Avatars of Truth - Interpretation, Deconstruction and Narrative; 9. Reduction, Construction, Destruction of a Three-Way Dialogue: Natorp, Husserl and Heidegger Jean-Francois Courtine; 10. Hermeneutics and the Conversation of Language Santiago Zabala; 11. Truth and Interpretation Daniel Dahlstrom; 12. A Narrative Account of Action: Ricoeur's Response to Davidson Laszlo Tengelyi; Bibliography; Index.