Responsibility to Understand
Hermeneutical Contours of Ethical Life
Published on 28. May 2020
241 pages
978-1-4744-6765-0 (ISBN)
Description
Few topics have received broader attention within contemporary philosophy than that of responsibility. Theodore George makes a novel case for a distinctive sense of responsibility at stake in the hermeneutical experiences of understanding and interpretation.He argues for the significance of this hermeneutical responsibility in the context of our relations with things, animals and others, as well as political solidarity and the formation of solidarities through the arts, literature and translation.
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Content
- Intro
- Acknowledgements
- Preface: The Unbearable Lightness of Ethics
- Introduction: Contemporary Hermeneutics and the Question of Responsibility
- Part I: The Responsibility to Understand
- 1 The Responsibility to Understand
- 2 The Capacity for Displacement
- Part II: I and Thou
- 3 ThingsAs
- 4 Animals
- 5 Others
- Part III: I and We
- 6 Solidarity
- 7 Arts and Literature
- 8 Translation
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
