Georgia Warnke began her career by studying the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer, the foremost contemporary proponent of hermeneutics, a philosophical approach that centers on interpretation as dialogue across times and cultures. In this book, she traces the myriad ways in which interpretive perspectives [...]
Legitimate Differences challenges the usual portrayal of current debates over thorny social issues including abortion, pornography, affirmative action, and surrogate mothering as moral debates. How can it be said that our debates oppose principles of life to those of liberty, principles of liberty t[...]
Det hela blir en prövning av grundtankarna i Gadamers hermeneutik med Warnke som sympatisk men inte okritisk vägvisare genom problemkomplexen. Warnke konfronterar Gadamers hermeneutik med E D Hirschs teori om objektiv texttolkning. I ett annat kapitel konfronteras samma hermeneutik med Richard Ror[...]