Recovery of the Measure

Recovery of the Measure Interpretation and Nature - Axiology of Thinking

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"The world is as we interpret it." Arguing that this assumption is a major and pervasive error, Neville demonstrates that the world is the measure of our interpretations. Distinguishing two traditions of hermeneutics, the continental tradition focusing on the interpretation of texts and the American tradition on the interpretation of nature; Neville argues that, since interpretation itself is part of the natural world, a philosophical vision of nature must be restored to currency in order to provide an interpretive theory of the world that can be a measure of interpretation. The natural world must be construed richly enough to be inclusive of human intention and purpose. By taking the discussion of hermeneutics from the context of textuality and placing it within that of nature, Recovery of the Measure provides a non-modernist and non-postmodernist theory of interpretation.

The first four chapters and the last four constitute a hermeneutical theory addressing contemporary problems of interpretation situated in the context of the philosophy of nature. The middle chapters provide a compact philosophy of nature dealing with being, identity, value, space, time, motion, and causation.

Book information

ISBN: 9780791400982
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Imprint: SUNY Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 133
DEWEY edition: 20
Language: English
Number of pages: 369
Weight: 680g
Height: 241mm
Width: 165mm
Spine width: 32mm