Print version: Costache, Adrian Gadamer and the Question of Understanding Lanham, MD : Lexington Books,c2016 ISBN 9780739185018
Intro -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I: Translating Heidegger -- 1 In Search for the Original -- 2 Understanding as a Historically Effected Event -- First Preliminary Conclusion -- II: Tradutore Tradittore -- 3 The Silent Turn against Heidegger -- 4 Paving the Way to the Later Heidegger -- Second Preliminary Conclusion -- III: Some Problems with Gadamer’s Translation -- 5 The Dossier of the Gadamer-Derrida Encounter Revisited -- 6 Gadamer Critic of Derrida. Derrida Critic of Gadamer -- Final Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.
This book retraces the development of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics in relation with (and against) Martin Heidegger’s early ontological hermeneutics as well as his later thought and subjects it to a critical examination from the point of view of Jacques Derrida’s deconstruction..