Pedagogical Implications of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Hermeneutics
| Author: | Sotiriou, Peter | |
| Year: | 2012 | |
| Pages: | 300 | |
| ISBN: | 0-7734-2577-2 978-0-7734-2577-4 | |
| Price: | $199.95 + shipping | |
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This work extends the studies of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Hermeneutics, focusing exhaustively on Truth and Method as the source for articulating a hermeneutic pedagogy. As a study aligning phenomenology to the teaching literature and composition, this book introduces a thorough-going philosophical dimension to these studies and provides a necessary ground for them as disciplines.
Reviews
“[The author] gently reminds us of the immensely important role that reading and writing play in our students’ education, in any discipline that they study. In so doing, he simultaneously proves by his own writing style and practice that scholars [can't simply] only set standards for their students.” – Prof. Erland G. Anderson, Southern Oregon University
“[The author] writes with a teacher’s eye, always considering how this extremely dense theoretical work can inform the practices of the teacher of reading and writing at the college level. … it is his understanding of philosophical hermeneutics as pedagogy that distinguishes this work and makes it stand out among studies of Gadamar.” – Prof. Ellen Quandahl, San Diego State University
“This work guides the reader through a complex field of philosophical thought and provides a cogent case for introducing students to the interpreting dynamics of reading, writing, and thinking.” – Prof. Frederick Burwick, University of California, Los Angeles
“[The author] writes with a teacher’s eye, always considering how this extremely dense theoretical work can inform the practices of the teacher of reading and writing at the college level. … it is his understanding of philosophical hermeneutics as pedagogy that distinguishes this work and makes it stand out among studies of Gadamar.” – Prof. Ellen Quandahl, San Diego State University
“This work guides the reader through a complex field of philosophical thought and provides a cogent case for introducing students to the interpreting dynamics of reading, writing, and thinking.” – Prof. Frederick Burwick, University of California, Los Angeles
Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface by Erland G. Anderson
Prologue: Pedagogy as Practical Philosophy
Acknowledgements
Part I: Reading Gadamer Pedagogically
Chapter 1: A Pedagogical Reading of Truth and Method
A Definition of Hermeneutics
Understanding
Horizons
Play
Conversation
Langauge
Reading and Writing
Imitation
The Human Sciences Versus the Natural Sciences
Gadamer’s Critics
Chapter 2: The Significance of Reading, the Reader, and the Text in Truth and Method
The Significance of the Question
The Focus on the Question in the Human Sciences
The Role of Play in Hermeneutical Questioning
The Role of the Reader in Philosophical Hermeneutics
Effective Historical Consciousness and the Reader
The I-Thou Textual Relationship
The Phronimos as Textual Interpreter
The Text as Living Tradition
Chapter 3: A Pedagogical Reading of Philosophical Hermeneutics
The Gadamerian Dialogue
Excess
The Teaching of Grammar
Commonplaces and Conventions
Vocabulary
Part II: Philosophical Hermeneutics as Response to Critical and Pedagogical Theory
Chapter 4: Philosophical Hermeneutics as a Response to Wolfgang Iser and Stanley Fish
Wolfgang Iser
Stanley Fish
Chapter 5: Philosophical Hermeneutics as a Response to Models Teaching, E.D. Hirsch, and Allan Bloom
E.D. Hirsch
Allan Bloom
Part III: Philosophical Hermeneutics as Reading and Writing Pedagogy
Chapter 6: Mariolina Salvatori’s Pedagogical Translations of Philosophical Hermeneutics
The Dialogue Nature of Basic Reading and Writing
Pedagogy: From Periphery to the Center
Facts, Artifacts, and Counterfacts
Chapter 7: A Hermeneutic Pedagogy
Classroom Conversation
The Nature of Discourse in Philosophical Hermeneutics
What to Read?
Reading’s Interconnections to Writing
The Essay Assignment
Evaluating Written Responses
Experiencing Reading Philosophically
A Focus on Language
Openness and Play
Pedagogy as Hermeneutics
Philosophical Hermeneutics as a Response to Current Language Pedagogies
The Antecedents of a Hermeneutic Pedagogy
Works Cited
Index
Preface by Erland G. Anderson
Prologue: Pedagogy as Practical Philosophy
Acknowledgements
Part I: Reading Gadamer Pedagogically
Chapter 1: A Pedagogical Reading of Truth and Method
A Definition of Hermeneutics
Understanding
Horizons
Play
Conversation
Langauge
Reading and Writing
Imitation
The Human Sciences Versus the Natural Sciences
Gadamer’s Critics
Chapter 2: The Significance of Reading, the Reader, and the Text in Truth and Method
The Significance of the Question
The Focus on the Question in the Human Sciences
The Role of Play in Hermeneutical Questioning
The Role of the Reader in Philosophical Hermeneutics
Effective Historical Consciousness and the Reader
The I-Thou Textual Relationship
The Phronimos as Textual Interpreter
The Text as Living Tradition
Chapter 3: A Pedagogical Reading of Philosophical Hermeneutics
The Gadamerian Dialogue
Excess
The Teaching of Grammar
Commonplaces and Conventions
Vocabulary
Part II: Philosophical Hermeneutics as Response to Critical and Pedagogical Theory
Chapter 4: Philosophical Hermeneutics as a Response to Wolfgang Iser and Stanley Fish
Wolfgang Iser
Stanley Fish
Chapter 5: Philosophical Hermeneutics as a Response to Models Teaching, E.D. Hirsch, and Allan Bloom
E.D. Hirsch
Allan Bloom
Part III: Philosophical Hermeneutics as Reading and Writing Pedagogy
Chapter 6: Mariolina Salvatori’s Pedagogical Translations of Philosophical Hermeneutics
The Dialogue Nature of Basic Reading and Writing
Pedagogy: From Periphery to the Center
Facts, Artifacts, and Counterfacts
Chapter 7: A Hermeneutic Pedagogy
Classroom Conversation
The Nature of Discourse in Philosophical Hermeneutics
What to Read?
Reading’s Interconnections to Writing
The Essay Assignment
Evaluating Written Responses
Experiencing Reading Philosophically
A Focus on Language
Openness and Play
Pedagogy as Hermeneutics
Philosophical Hermeneutics as a Response to Current Language Pedagogies
The Antecedents of a Hermeneutic Pedagogy
Works Cited
Index