Objectivity: The Hermeneutical and Philosophy (SUNY series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

__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.__ Translator's Introduction -- Chapter 1: From Pholosophical Hermaeneutics To Hermeneutical Philosophy -- The Human Sciences As Problem -- Hermeneutics Of Facticity -- Hermeneutics And Practical Philosophy -- Origin -- Models Of Origin -- Moments Of Origin -- Chapter 2: Interpretation -- Carrying Over -- What Is To Be Interpreted -- Setting In -- Exterior Relations -- Presentative Recognizing -- Understanding -- Objectivity -- Chapter 3: The World As Hermeneutical Space -- Phenomenology -- Space -- The Concept Of World -- Chapter 4: Freedom -- Action -- Deliberation -- Freedom Of Things -- Shared Freedom -- Free Contemplation -- Chapter 5: Language -- Based On Speech -- An Individual Simple Sentence -- Signs -- Significance -- Deconstruction Of The Voice -- Positions -- Written Thought -- Chapter 6: Time -- Ubiquitous And With All Things -- Something Occurs -- Being In Time -- Time Of Enactment -- Temporality -- Constellations Of Meaning -- Chapter 7: Life -- In Hermeneutical Space -- Lifting Out And Folding -- Originariness -- Form Of Life -- Body And The Body Quick -- Reason -- Structure Of Life -- Lack And Fullness. Günter Figal ; Translated By Theodore D. George. Includes Bibliographical References And Indexes. Translated From The German. 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. In Excess and Masculinity in Asian Cultural Productions, Kwai-Cheung Lo explores the excesses associated with the phenomenal economic growth in East Asia, including surplus capital, environmental waste, and the unbalanced ratio of men to women in the region, connecting the production of capitalist "excess" to the production of new forms of transnational Asian masculinity. Lo draws on Lacanian psychoanalysis and Marxist ideas as well as gender theory in his examination of East Asian cultural products such as religious and parenting books, transgender literary fantasies, travel writing, gangster movies, female action heroes, and online games. Through this analysis, Lo argues that the excess of Asia's "masculine" modernization throws into relief the internal inconsistencies of capitalism itself, posing new challenges to the order of global capitalism and suggesting new possible configurations of global modernity --Book Jacket In an effort to forge philosophical hermeneutics into a hermeneutical philosophy, the author 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, he 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