Routledge Companion to Hermeneutics

Hermeneutics

Hermeneutics is a major theoretical and practical form of intellectual enquiry, central not only to philosophy but many other disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. With phenomenology and existentialism, it is also one of the twentieth century’s most important philosophical movements and includes major thinkers such as Heidegger, Gadamer and Ricoeur. The Routledge Companion to Hermeneutics is an outstanding guide and reference source to the key philosophers, topics and themes in this exciting subject and is the first volume of its kind.

Companion

Comprising over fifty chapters by a team of international contributors the Companion is divided into five parts:

Main figures in the hermeneutical tradition movement

including Heidegger, Gadamer and Ricoeur

Main topics in hermeneutics

such as language, truth, relativism and history

The engagement of hermeneutics with central disciplines

such as literature, religion, race and gender, and art

Hermeneutics and world philosophies

including Asian, Islamic and Judaic thought

Hermeneutic challenges and debates

such as critical theory, structuralism and phenomenology.