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Hermeneutics: Facts and Interpretation in the Age of Information (Pelican Books)

Hermeneutics: Facts and Interpretation in the Age of Information (Pelican Books)

by JohnD.Caputo (Author), John D. Caputo (Author)

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Synopsis

Is anything ever not an interpretation? Does interpretation go all the way down? Is there such a thing as a pure fact that is interpretation-free? If not, how are we supposed to know what to think and do? These tantalizing questions are tackled by renowned American thinker John D Caputo in this wide-reaching exploration of what the traditional term 'hermeneutics' can mean in a postmodern, twenty-first century world. As a contemporary of Derrida's and longstanding champion of rethinking the disciplines of theology and philosophy, for decades Caputo has been forming alliances across disciplines and drawing in readers with his compelling approach to what he calls radical hermeneutics. In this new introduction, drawing upon a range of thinkers from Heidegger to the Parisian 1968ers and beyond, he raises a series of probing questions about the challenges of life in the postmodern and maybe soon to be 'post-human' world.'

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 368
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Pelican
Published: 25 Jan 2018
ISBN 10: 0241257859
ISBN 13: 9780241257852
Book Overview: Renowned thinker John D. Caputo has spent his career recasting theology and philosophy for a new world. In Interpretations from the Margins, he explores the cross-disciplinary world of modern hermeneutics, blazing a new trail in the most modern of fields.

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Praise for Truth: Caputo's entertaining investigation into the nature of truth . . . sets out his case confidently, enlisting Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Derrida as his allies. (His explanation of Derrida's thought is one of the clearest that I've read.) . . . The starting point for a more sophisticated discussion -- David Wolf * Prospect *
Caputo has done a fine job of clarifying and classifying the postmodernist approach to truth and reality. His readable and eloquent book is an excellent guide to the outlook common in a certain strain of Continental European philosophy * The Times Literary Supplement *
Author Bio
John D. Caputo is a specialist in contemporary hermeneutics and deconstruction with a special interest in religion in the postmodern condition. The Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion Emeritus at Syracuse University and the David R. Cook Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Villanova University, he has spearheaded an idea he calls weak theology.