Bøker i Yale Studies in Hermeneutics (YUP)-serien

In this historical introduction to philosophical hermeneutics, Jean Grondin discusses the major figures from Phyla to Habermas, analyzes conflicts among various interpretive schools, and provides a critique of Gadamer's view of hermeneutic history.

Twenty leading thinkers explore the ways rhetoric and hermeneutics inform each other and influence a wide variety of intellectual fields. Essays are arranged by topic: inventions and applications; arguments and narratives; and civic discourse and critical theory.

An interpretation of the modernization and secularization of Turkey which attempts to show the usefulness of hermeneutics in political analysis. The author argues that a hermeneutic approach illuminates the complex relations between religion and politics in post-Ottoman Turkey.

In this meditation on the nature and purpose of hermeneutics, Gerald Bruns argues that hermeneutics is not just a contemporary theory. It is an extended family of questions about understanding and interpretation that have multiple and conflicting histories from before the beginning of writing.

Edmund Husserl (1859-1938), known as the founder of the phenomenological movement, was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. This book traces the development of Husserl's thought from his earliest investigations in philosophy - informed by his work as a mathematician - to his publication of "Ideas" in 1913.