A Companion to Hermeneutics is a collection of original
essays from leading international scholars that provide a
definitive historical and critical compendium of philosophical
hermeneutics.
Offers a definitive historical, systematic, and critical
compendium of hermeneutics
Represents state-of-the-art thinking on the major themes,
topics, concepts and figures of the hermeneutic tradition in
philosophy and those who have influenced hermeneutic thought,
including Kant, Hegel, Schleiermacher Dilthey, Heidegger, Gadamer,
Ricoeur, Foucault, Habermas, and Rorty
Explores the art and theory of interpretation as it intersects
with a number of philosophical and inter-disciplinary areas,
including humanism, theology, literature, politics, education and
law
Features contributions from an international cast of leading
and upcoming scholars, who offer historically informed,
philosophically comprehensive, and critically astute contributions
in their individual fields of expertise
Written to be accessible to interested non-specialists, as well
asprofessional philosophers
