The Question of Hermeneutics: Essays in Honor of Joseph J. Kockelmans (Contributions to Phenomenology, 17)

by Pierre Kerszberg Joseph J. Kockelmans: A Biographical Note Joseph Kockelmans was born on December I, 1923, at Meerssen in the Netherlands. In 1951 he received his doctoral degree in philosophy from the Institute for Medieval Philosophy, Angelico, Rome. Earlier on, he had earned a "Baccalaureate" and a "Licence" from the same institution. Upon his return to the Netherlands, he engaged in a series of post-doctoral studies. His first subject was mathematics, which he studied under H. Busard who taught at the Institute of Technology at Venlo (1952-55). A major turning-point then occurred when, from 1955 to 1962, his post-doctoral research centered simultaneously around physics under A. D. Fokker at the University of Leyden, and phenomenology under H. L. Van Breda at the Husserl Archives of the University of Louvain. Still in the Netherlands, his first position as professor of philosophy was at the Agricultural University of Wageningen from 1963 to 1964. Even though he had been a Visiting Professor at Duquesne University in 1962, the year 1964 marked the actual beginning of his career in the United States. He began by holding a professorship at the New School for Social Research in New York (1964-65). Before establishing himself permanently at the Pennsylvania State University from 1968 onward, where he became a Distinguished Professor of Philosophy in 1990, he also held a professorship at the University of Rittsburgh from 1965 to 1968. Front Matter....Pages i-x Introduction....Pages 1-14 Front Matter....Pages 15-15 The Future of Hermeneutic Philosophy....Pages 17-35 Regulative Ideas or Sense-Events? An Attempt to Determine the Logos of Hermeneutics....Pages 37-60 Transversal Rationality....Pages 61-78 Towards a Systematic Interpretationism....Pages 79-88 Front Matter....Pages 89-89 Husserl’s Kant Reception and the Foundation of His Transcendental Phenomenological “First Philosophy”....Pages 91-112 The Transformation in Husserl’s Later Philosophy....Pages 113-125 The Question of the Transcendental Ego: Sartre’s Critique of Husserl....Pages 127-151 Front Matter....Pages 153-153 Kriegsnotsemester 1919: Heidegger’s Hermeneutic Breakthrough....Pages 155-208 Heidegger and Categorial Intuition....Pages 209-236 Considerations on “Der Satz Vom Grund”....Pages 237-253 Gadamer and Derrida as Interpreters of Heidegger: On Four Texts of Gadamer and Four Texts of Derrida....Pages 255-305 Front Matter....Pages 307-307 Against Transcendental Empiricism....Pages 309-335 Being and Knowing in Modern Physical Science....Pages 337-361 Galileo, Luther, and the Hermeneutics of Natural Science....Pages 363-375 Phenomenological Excavation of Archaeological Cognition or How to Hunt Mammoth....Pages 377-395 Heidegger and Computers....Pages 397-423 Front Matter....Pages 425-425 The Enigma of Art: Phenomenology of Aesthetic Experience or Archaeology of the Work of Art?....Pages 427-450 Ethics in Our Time....Pages 451-468 Back Matter....Pages 469-498

the Essays Included In This Volume Are Illustrative Of The Depth And Breadth Of Possibilities Provided By Hermeneutic Philosophy And By A Hermeneutically Oriented Phenomenology. Among The Topics Considered, The Questions Explored, Are: How Is Hermeneutics Situated Within The General, Twentieth Century Philosophical Climate? What Is Its Genuine Essence, Its logos? How Does Hermeneutics Relate To Traditional Philosophy? To Kant? To Hegel? To Husserl? What Possibilities Does Hermeneutics Offer For A Philosophy Of The Future? What Does It Have To Say About Science, About Art, About Values, About Rationality And Its Limits, About What It Means To Be Who We Are? Such Are The Questions Of This Volume, the Question Of Hermeneutics. Contributors Include Such Well Known Philosophers As Otto Pöggeler, Karl-otto Apel, Calvin Schrag, Walter Biemel, James Edie, Thomas Seebohm, Adriaan Peperzak, And Others.

The essays included in this volume are illustrative of the depth and breadth of possibilities provided by hermeneutic philosophy and by a hermeneutically oriented phenomenology. Among the topics considered, the questions explored, are: How is hermeneutics situated within the general, twentieth century philosophical climate? What is its genuine essence, its logos? How does hermeneutics relate to traditional philosophy? To Kant? To Hegel? To Husserl? What possibilities does hermeneutics offer for a philosophy of the future? What does it have to say about science, about art, about values, about rationality and its limits, about what it means to be who we are? Such are the questions of this volume, The Question of Hermeneutics. Contributors include such well known philosophers as Otto Pöggeler, Karl-Otto Apel, Calvin Schrag, Walter Biemel, James Edie, Thomas Seebohm, Adriaan Peperzak, and others