Roots of Hermeneutics in Kant's Reflective-Teleological Judgment

Having taught English literature and language philosophy for some 40 years, Horst Ruthrof is a founding member of Murdoch University in Perth and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. He is the author of The Reader’s Construction of Narrative (1981; 2017); Pandora and Occam: On the Limits of Language and Literature (1992; 2017); Semantics and the Body: Meaning from Frege to the Postmodern (1997; 1998); The Body in Language (2000; 2015); Language and Imaginability (2014); and  Husserl’s Phenomenology of Language: Intersubjectivity and Communality in the Nachlass (2021).

• Introduction: Gadamer – Benchmark of Hermeneutics.- The Chiastic Structure of Kant’s Critical Concepts.- Kant’s Proto-Hermeneutics.- Kant’s Conception of Natural Language.- Ast, Schleiermacher, Dilthey: Hermeneutics as Inductive Reconstruction.- Husserl and Ingarden: Hermeneutic Intentionality.- Heidegger: Being and the Hermeneutics of Pro-jection.- Ricoeur: Hermeneutics as Self-Recognition.- Apel and Habermas: Emancipatory Hermeneutics.- Foucault, Derrida, Lyotard: Decentred Hermeneutics.- Vattimo, Nancy, Caputo: Hermeneutics in the Shadow of Nihilism.- Conclusion: Hermeneutics of the Absolute.