Purcell's article 14.2
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Purcell's article 14.2
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Title
After Hermeneutics?
Abstract
Recently Alain Badiou and Quentin Meillassoux have attacked the core of the phenomenological hermeneutic tradition: its commitment to the finitude of human understanding. If accurate, this critique threatens to render the whole tradition a topic of merely historical interest. Given the depth of the criticism, this essay aims to establish a provisional defense of hermeneutics. After briefly reviewing each critique, it is argued that Badiou and Meillassoux themselves face rather intractable difficulties. These difficulties, then, open the space for a hermeneutic response, which is accomplished largely by drawing on the work of Paul Ricoeur. We close with a suggested program for hermeneutic thought.
Volume
14.2 (Fall/Automne 2010)
Pages
160-179
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“Purcell's article 14.2,” Symposium, accessed April 28, 2024, http://www.artsrn.ualberta.ca/symposium/items/show/32.