Last month we published the second volume in a new series, Issues in Phenomenology and Hermeneutics, a collection of essays entitled Variations on Truth: Approaches in Contemporary Phenomenology. Edited by Pol Vandevelde (Marquette University) and Kevin Hermberg (Dominican College), the book presents a comprehensive survey of contemporary phenomenological research into the problem of truth. Twelve leading scholars from around the world explore and map a comprehensive and rigorous alternative to mainstream analytic discussions of truth, reality and understanding.
Also recently arrived on my desk are advance copies of Paul Fairfield's Philosophical Hermeneutics Reinterpreted, in which Fairfield (Queen's University, Canada) examines hermeneutics in relation to existentialism, pragmatism, critical theory and poststructuralism. The book brings hermeneutics into closer association with existentialism, pragmatism, critical theory, and postmodernism. Fairfield contends that there are important affinities and areas for critical exchange between hermeneutics and these four schools of thought which have, until now, remained under-appreciated. In so doing, he both clarifies some outstanding issues in hermeneutics and advances the subject beyond what Heidegger, Gadamer, and Ricoeur have given us.
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