The Responsibility to Understand: Hermeneutical Contours of Ethical Life

By Theodore George

Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Date: 06/30/2020

Description:

This book examine is the significance of hermeneutics at the intersections of ethics, politics and the arts and humanities.

Few topics have received broader attention within contemporary philosophy than that of responsibility. Theodore George makes a novel case for a distinctive sense of responsibility at stake in the hermeneutical experiences of understanding and interpretation.

George argues for the significance of this hermeneutical responsibility in the context of our relations with things, animals and others, as well as political solidarity and the formation of solidarities through the arts, literature and translation.