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Review: Sticks And Stones: The Philosophy Of Insults, Macalester Bell
Review: Sticks And Stones: The Philosophy Of Insults, Macalester Bell
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Review Of Edmund Husserl: Founder Of Phenomenology, By Dermot Moran, Robert J. Dostal
Review Of Edmund Husserl: Founder Of Phenomenology, By Dermot Moran, Robert J. Dostal
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Gadamerian Hermeneutics And Irony: Between Strauss And Derrida, Robert J. Dostal
Gadamerian Hermeneutics And Irony: Between Strauss And Derrida, Robert J. Dostal
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Against the background of Gadamer's hermeneutics of trust, for which the primary concern of the hermeneutical enterprise is the matter under discussion, the Sache, this essay raises the question of Gadamer's treatment of irony. Gadamer and Gadamerians have criticized the hermeneutics of suspicion—a hermeneutics that always looks under the surface of what is said to see what is hidden. This would seem to make irony a problematic aspect of texts and discourse for a Gadamerian hermeneutics. Nowhere in Gadamer's corpus can we find an extensive discussion of irony, but Gadamer does raise the question of irony in a provocative way …