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Hermeneutics

Facts and Interpretation in the Age of Information

John D. Caputo

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English
Penguin
29 January 2018
Series: Pelican Books
"Renowned thinker John D. Caputo has spent his career recasting theology and philosophy for a new world. In Facts and Interpretation in the Age of Information, he explores the cross-disciplinary world of modern hermeneutics, blazing a new trail in the most modern of fields.

Is anything ever not an interpretation?

Does interpretation go all the way down?

Is there such a thing as a pure fact that is interpretation-free? If not, how are we supposed to know what to think and do?

These tantalizing questions are tackled by renowned American thinker John D Caputo in this wide-reaching exploration of what the traditional term 'hermeneutics' can mean in a postmodern, twenty-first century world. As a contemporary of Derrida's and longstanding champion of rethinking the disciplines of theology and philosophy, for decades Caputo has been forming alliances across disciplines and drawing in readers with his compelling approach to what he calls ""radical hermeneutics."" In this new introduction, drawing upon a range of thinkers from Heidegger to the Parisian ""1968ers"" and beyond, he raises a series of probing questions about the challenges of life in the postmodern and maybe soon to be 'post-human' world.'"

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Imprint:   Penguin
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 181mm,  Width: 111mm,  Spine: 21mm
Weight:   213g
ISBN:   9780241257852
ISBN 10:   0241257859
Series:   Pelican Books
Pages:   336
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Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  ELT Advanced ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

John D. Caputo is a specialist in contemporary hermeneutics and deconstruction with a special interest in religion in the postmodern condition. The Thomas J. Watson Professor of Religion Emeritus at Syracuse University and the David R. Cook Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at Villanova University, he has spearheaded an idea he calls weak theology.

Reviews for Hermeneutics: Facts and Interpretation in the Age of Information

Caputo has done a fine job of clarifying and classifying the postmodernist approach to truth and reality. His readable and eloquent book is an excellent guide to the outlook common in a certain strain of Continental European philosophy * The Times Literary Supplement * Praise for Truth: Caputo's entertaining investigation into the nature of truth . . . sets out his case confidently, enlisting Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Derrida as his allies. (His explanation of Derrida's thought is one of the clearest that I've read.) . . . The starting point for a more sophisticated discussion -- David Wolf * Prospect *


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