Recovery of the Measure: Interpretation and Nature - Couverture rigide

Neville, Robert Cummings

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0791400980 ISBN 13 : 9780791400982

Editeur : State University of New York Press, 1989

Synopsis

"The world is as we interpret it." Arguing that this assumption is a major and pervasive error, Neville demonstrates that the world is the measure of our interpretations. Distinguishing two traditions of hermeneutics, the continental tradition focusing on the interpretation of texts and the American tradition on the interpretation of nature; Neville argues that, since interpretation itself is part of the natural world, a philosophical vision of nature must be restored to currency in order to provide an interpretive theory of the world that can be a measure of interpretation. The natural world must be construed richly enough to be inclusive of human intention and purpose. By taking the discussion of hermeneutics from the context of textuality and placing it within that of nature, Recovery of the Measure provides a non-modernist and non-postmodernist theory of interpretation.

The first four chapters and the last four constitute a hermeneutical theory addressing contemporary problems of interpretation situated in the context of the philosophy of nature. The middle chapters provide a compact philosophy of nature dealing with being, identity, value, space, time, motion, and causation.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Robert Cummings Neville is the author of New Essays in Metaphysics; The Puritan Smile: A Look Toward Moral Reflection; The Tao and the Daimon; and Reconstruction of Thinking; all published by SUNY Press.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: State University of New York Press
• Date d'édition: 1989
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0791400980
• ISBN 13: 9780791400982
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 369
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• Personne responsable: non disponible