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Phenomenology, as was indicated in part two of this book, originated in Germany with the work of Edmund Husserl, who wanted to lay a new foundation for philosophy as a rigorous science. Through the phenomenological reductions he sought to set aside the presuppositions of every day consciousness until we have before us the unbiased outlook upon transcendental pure phenomena. By locating meaning in the intentional relation between consciousness and its object Husserl sought a rigorous foundation for knowledge. If Husserl’s concerns were primarily epistemological, Heidegger’s concerns, as was shown in the chapter on Existential Philosophy, were more ontological. Husserl bracketed the question of Being and Heidegger called for revisions in the phenomenological method which would make it appropriate for asking the question of the meaning of being, or what it means to be. In his early work Heidegger approached the question of the meaning of being through that being which is ontologically distinctive, the being of human existence or Dasein. Phenomenology becomes for him a description of the basic structures of Dasein. Since, however, the meaning of being is hidden and Dasein finds itself in a hermeneutical circle, phenomenological description is interpretation. According to Heidegger, “Phenomenology of Da-sein is hermeneutics in the original signification of that word, which designates the work of interpretation.”1
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Martin Heidegger, Being and Time (New York: Harper and Row, 1962), p. 37.
Hans-Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method, 2nd ed. (New York: Continuum, 1998), p. xxx.
Ibid., p. xxiii.
Ibid., p. 301.
Ibid., p. 357.
Ibid., p. 383.
Ibid., p. 404.
Ibid., p. 417.
Ibid., p. 457.
Ibid., p. 462.
Gerhard Ebeling, Word and Faith (London: SCM Press, 1963), p. 307. See James M. Robinson and John B. Cobb, Jr. eds., The New Hermeneutic (New York: Harper and Row, 1964).
Ernst Fuchs, Studies of the Historical Jesus (London: SCM Press, 1964), p. 192.
Ebeling, Word and Faith, p. 428.
Ibid., pp. 324–325.
Paul Ricœur, Fallible Man (Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1967), p. xvi.
Ibid., p. 203.
Ibid., p. 219.
Ibid., p. 215.
Paul Ricœur, The Conflict of Interpretations (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1974), p. 6.
Ibid., p.7.
Ibid., pp. 12–13.
Ibid., p. 13.
Ibid., p. 17.
Ibid., p. 22.
Ibid., p. 22.
Ibid., p. 24.
Ibid., p. 447.
Ibid., p. 448.
Ibid., p. 460.
Mario J. Valdes, ed., A Ricœur Reader (Toronto: Toronto University Press, 1991), p. 307.
Ricœur, Conflict of Interpretations, p. 452.
Ibid., p. 465.
Emmanuel Levinas, Totality and Infinity (Pittsburg: Duquesne University Press, 1969), p. 21.
Ibid., p. 33.
Ibid., p. 43.
Ibid., p. 43.
Ibid., p. 211.
Emmanuel Levinas, The Levinas Reader (Oxford: Blackwell, 1989), p. 83.
Levinas, Totality and Infinity, p. 51.
Levinas, The Levinas Reader, p. 73.
Levinas, Totality and Infinity, p. 40.
Emmanuel Levinas, Collected Papers (Dordrecht: Martinus Nijhoff, 1987), p. 155.
Ibid., p. 159.
Ibid., pp. 165–166.
Ibid., p. 170.
Richard Kearney, Dialogues with Contemporary Continental Thinkers (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1984), p. 110.
Ibid., p. 108.
Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1976), p. 12.
Ibid., p. 13.
Peggy Kamuf, ed., A Derrida Reader (New York: Columbia University Press, 1991), p. 61.
Kearney, Dialogues with Contemporary Continental Thinkers, pp. 123–124.
Howard Coward and Toby Foshay, eds., Derrida and Negative Theology (New York: SUNY Press, 1992), p. 77.
Toby Foshay, eds., Derrida and Negative Theology (New York: SUNY Press, 1992) Ibid., p. 79.
Mark Taylor, Erring: A Postmodern Theology (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1984), p. 6.
Ibid., p. 50.
Ibid., p. 93.
Ibid., p. 103.
Ibid., p. 169.
Jean-Luc Marion, God Without Being (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1991), p. xx.
Ibid., p. xxii.
Ibid., p. 16.
Ibid., p. 16.
Ibid., p. 17.
Ibid., pp. 22–23.
Ibid., p. 35.
Ibid., p. 46.
Ibid., p. 49.
Ibid., p. 140.
Ibid., p. 143.
Ibid., p. 144.
Ibid., p. 149.
Ibid., p. 153.
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Long, E.T. (2000). Hermeneutics and Deconstruction. In: Twentieth-Century Western Philosophy of Religion 1900–2000. Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy of Religion, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4064-5_20
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