Recovery of the Measure: Interpretation and Nature (AXIOLOGY OF THINKING SERIES) - Hardcover

Neville, Robert Cummings

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0791400980 ISBN 13: 9780791400982

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1989

Synopsis

"The world is as we interpret it." Arguing that this assumption is a major and pervasive error, Neville demonstrates that the world is the measure of our interpretations. Distinguishing two traditions of hermeneutics, the continental tradition focusing on the interpretation of texts and the American tradition on the interpretation of nature; Neville argues that, since interpretation itself is part of the natural world, a philosophical vision of nature must be restored to currency in order to provide an interpretive theory of the world that can be a measure of interpretation. The natural world must be construed richly enough to be inclusive of human intention and purpose. By taking the discussion of hermeneutics from the context of textuality and placing it within that of nature, Recovery of the Measure provides a non-modernist and non-postmodernist theory of interpretation.

The first four chapters and the last four constitute a hermeneutical theory addressing contemporary problems of interpretation situated in the context of the philosophy of nature. The middle chapters provide a compact philosophy of nature dealing with being, identity, value, space, time, motion, and causation.

About this title

About the Author

Robert Cummings Neville is the author of New Essays in Metaphysics; The Puritan Smile: A Look Toward Moral Reflection; The Tao and the Daimon; and Reconstruction of Thinking; all published by SUNY Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 1989
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0791400980
• ISBN 13: 9780791400982
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 369