1st Edition
The Ethics of Interpretation From Charity as a Principle to Love as a Hermeneutic Imperative
Introduction: What is the Ethics of Interpretation?
Part 1: Two versions of the Principle of Charity in Interpretation: Gadamer and Davidson
1. Gadamer’s Dialogical Interpretation
2. Davidson’s Radical Interpretation: Charity and Triangulation
Part 2: Two Versions of a Poetics of Truth in Interpretation: Ricoeur and Foucault
3. Ricoeur’s Interpretive Truth: Attestation
4. Foucault’s Interpretive Truth: Parrhesia
Part 3: Two Versions of What Regulates Interpretation: Validity Claims and Love
5. The Ethics of Discussion: Karl-Otto Apel’s Program
6. Benevolence or Love as both a Moral and Epistemic Virtue
Conclusion: Love as a Hermeneutic Imperative
Biography
Pol Vandevelde is Professor of Philosophy at Marquette University, USA. He specializes in 19th- and 20th- century European philosophy, theory of interpretation, critical theory, philosophy of knowledge, phenomenology, and hermeneutics. He is the author of three books including The Task of the Interpreter: Text, Meaning, and Negotiation (2005) and Heidegger and the Romantics: The Literary Invention of Meaning (Routledge, 2012, awarded the Prix Mercier from the Université de Louvain).
