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Metaphysical Hermeneutics, Hardback Book

Metaphysical Hermeneutics Hardback

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If in its simplest form, hermeneutics is a quest for understanding, then part of that quest will always include striving to understand being and the meaning of being.

This open access book takes that ambition seriously, arguing that hermeneutics and metaphysics, so central to philosophical thought but so rarely put in tandem, are two complementary fundamentals of human existence. Metaphysical Hermeneutics puts forward the argument for a hermeneutical metaphysics in service of philosophy’s basic aim: to make sense of our experience.

Jean Grondin builds his argument for this combined discipline around the idea of ‘sense’ – a theme that is both hermeneutical and metaphysical.

What we seek to glimpse is not just a figment of the mind but always the meaning of something.

Grondin calls on one of the founding figures of contemporary hermeneutics Hans-Georg Gadamer to test his theories, singling out the metaphysical dimension of Gadamer’s ideas and questioning his seeming embrace and rejection of that dimension.

Rooting these questions in the human search for meaning is a major contribution to the scope and resources of hermeneutic philosophy.

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