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Appearing for the first time in English, Günter Figal's groundbreaking book in the tradition of philosophical hermeneutics offers original perspectives on perennial philosophical problems.
Günter Figal has long been recognized as one of the most insightful interpreters working in the tradition of philosophical hermeneutics and its leading themes concerned with ancient Greek thought, art, language, and history. With this book, Figal presses this tradition of philosophical hermeneutics in new directions. In his effort to forge philosophical hermeneutics into a hermeneutical philosophy, Figal develops an original critique of the objectification of the world that emerges in modernity as the first stage in his systematic treatment of the elements of experience hermeneutically understood. Breaking through the prejudices of modernity, but not sacrificing the importance and challenge of the objective world that confronts us and is in need of interpretation, Figal reorients how it is that philosophy should take up some of its most longstanding and stubborn questions. World, object, space, language, freedom, time, and life are refreshed as philosophical notions here since they are each regarded as elements of human life engaged in the task assigned to each of us-the task of understanding ourselves and our world.
"Figal's work launches a renewal of hermeneutics in the broadest sense. Through his investigation of the hermeneutical dimension of experience and of language, he enlarges the scope of hermeneutics to such an extent that it comes to coincide with philosophy as such. Thus, he takes up not only questions concerning understanding and interpretation but also the classical philosophical issues of space and time, of language and speech, and of life and reason. Objectivity is a thoroughly original and rigorous work, which retrieves much of the content of the philosophical tradition while also advancing into the still uncharted territory opened up by recent philosophical thought." — John Sallis, author of Platonic Legacies
Acknowledgments
Translator’s Introduction
Preface
Introduction
I. From Philosophical Hermeneutics to Hermeneutical Philosophy
1. The Human Sciences as Problem
2. Hermeneutics of Facticity
3. Hermeneutics and Practical Philosophy
4. Origin
5. Models of Origin
6. Moments of Origin
Chapter 2. Interpretation
7. Carrying Over
8. What Is To Be Interpreted
9. Setting In
10. Exterior Relations
11. Presentative Recognizing
12. Understanding
13. Objectivity
Chapter 3. The World as Hermeneutical Space
14. Phenomenology
15. Space
16. The Concept of World
Chapter 4. Freedom
17. Action
18. Deliberation
19. Freedom of Things
20. Shared Freedom
21. Free Contemplation
Chapter 5. Language
22. Based on Speech
23. An Individual Simple Sentence
24. Signs
25. Significance
26. Deconstruction of the Voice
27. Positions
28. Written Thought
Chapter 6. Time
29. Ubiquitous and With All Things
30. Something Occurs
31. Being in Time
32. Time of Enactment
33. Temporality
34. Constellations of Meaning
Chapter 7. Life
35. In Hermeneutical Space
36. Lifting Out and Folding
37. Originariness
38. Form of Life
39. Body and the Body Quick
40. Reason
41. Structure of Life
42. Lack and Fullness
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Names
Index of Subjects
Index of Greek Terms