The 13th annual Canadian Hermeneutics Institute will be held via Zoom June 1-3 2022. This year’s topic is Hermeneutic Injustice, and it will be led by NASPH’s own David Vessey.
The program, registration information, and instructions on how to submit an abstract for presentation at the institute (the deadline is March 15) can be found at www.CHIannual.com.
Pol Vandevelde and Arun Iyer have been doing a real service to the hermeneutics community by editing and translating a number of Gadamer’s works. The second volume in that series, Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Historical Dimension of Language, will be published soon. You can pre-order your copy here.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements vii
Translators’ Preface viii
Translators’ Introduction x
I Language and Ontology (by Pol Vandevelde) xi
II The Situated Truth of a Work of Art (by Arun Iyer) xxv
Part 1 Ancient Ethics and Practical Philosophy
1 The Socratic Question and Aristotle (1990) 3
2 Aristotle’s Protrepticus in Consideration of the Historical Development of Aristotle’s Ethics (1928) 9
3 Heidegger and the Greeks (1990) 27
4 The Idea of Practical Philosophy (1983) 39
5 Reason and Practical Philosophy (1986) 47
Part 2 Aesthetics
6 On Poetics and Hermeneutics (1968/1971) 55
7 The End of Art? From Hegel’s Doctrine of the Pastness of Art to the Anti-art of Today (1985) 65
8 The Place of Poetry in the System of Hegelian Aesthetics and the Question of the Pastness of Art (1986) 77
9 Conceptual Painting? On Arnold Gehlen’s Time-Pictures (1962) 87
10 On the Reading of Buildings and Paintings (1979) 95
11 Poetizing and Thinking as Reflected through Hölderlin’s Remembrance (1987) 101
12 Goethe and Mozart – the Problem of Opera (1991) 113
13 The Lynceus Tower Song in Goethe’s Faust (1982) 121
14 What Makes Goethe’s Language Natural? A Congress Contribution (1985) 127
Part 3 The Dimension of Language
15 Language and Understanding (1970) 141
16 The Theory of History and Language (1987) 153
17 Of Teachers and Learners (1986) 159
18 Heidegger and Language (1990) 163
19 Homeland and Language (1992) 177
20 On the Way to Writing? (1983) 183
21 Voice and Language (1981) 193
22 Hearing – Seeing – Reading (1984) 203
23 Reading Is like Translating (1989) 211
Notes 217
Appendix: Glossary of German Terms 245
The following is a free event that will be of interest to our group (and beyond): “Rhetoric, Hermeneutics, and General Education,” discussion with John Arthos in the “Hermeneutics in Real Life” series, Sat., Nov. 6, 1 pm EST, free event. This event explores how we can center hermeneutic theory in the college curriculum. Information and registration at: https://www.hinrl.org/conversation-sessions#h.6ij5ie9308mj
For those planning to attend SPEP 2021, we invite you to attend the North American Society of Philosophical Hermeneutics’ Satellite Session which will take place on Sunday, Sept. 26, 11 am – 2 pm EST.
To register for the conference, please visit https://www.pdcnet.org/wp/services/2021-spep/. (New registrations will be processed every 24 hours, so please be sure to register at least 24 hours in advance of any panels you hope to attend.)
**Update**
***Times Listed Below are Eastern Standard Time
Due to rising Covid cases in Michigan, we have made the decision to move this year’s conference fully on-line. We will post details about how to join the conference here in the coming days.
If you have already paid for dues, conference fees, or banquet fees will will refund those through PayPal. It may take a couple of days for these to process, but if you do not see your refund on your account after that time please let us know.
The official conference program is here, and the schedule of events is below. Note that the schedule may change as we shift to the fully virtual format.
To join the conference sessions, just use the zoom links below.
Conference Schedule (times listed are eastern time zone)
Thursday October 7
1:15-1:30 PM Welcome and Announcements
1:30-2:30 PM Theodore George, Texas A&M | Gadamer on the Geopolitics of Translation
2:30-2:45 PM Break
2:45-4:00 PM Invited Speaker: Catherine Homan, Mount Mary University | Remembering the Future: From the Poetic to the Political
4:00-4:15 PM Break
4:15-5:45 PM Keynote Address: Bruce Ellis Benson, University of Vienna | Having Faith in Improvisation
Friday October 8
9:30-10:30 AM John Arthos, Indiana |The ‘Unshapely Form’ of the Work: Parsing the Structure of an Irresolvable Paradox
10:30-10:45 AM Break
10:45-12:00 PM Invited Speaker: Melissa Freeman, University of Georgia | The Event of Art’s Perturbation
12:00-1:30 PM Break
1:30-2:30 PM John V. James, Dallas (Graduate Student Prize Winner) | On the Several Senses of Forgetting in Gadamer’s Hermeneutics
2:30-2:45 PM Break
2:45-3:45 PM Text discussion session | Gadamer’s “Goethe and Mozart: The Problem of Opera” (1991)
3:45-4:00 PM Break
4:00-6:00 PM Author Meets Critics | Hermeneutics as Critique (Columbia UP)
Speaker: Chris Manno, Portland
Speaker: Cynthia Nielsen, Dallas
Speaker: Iaan Reynolds, Villanova
Speaker: David Vessey, Grand Valley State
Speaker: Darren Walhof, Grand Valley State
Respondent: Lorenzo Simpson, Stony Brook
Saturday October 9
9:30-10:30 AM Pavan Brar, Duquesne | A Contribution to a Philosophical-Hermeneutic Approach to Musical Understanding
10:30-10:45 AM Break
10:45-12:00 PM Invited Speaker: Mirela Oliva, Univ. of St. Thomas (Houston) | Displacement and Life Changes
12:00 PM-1:30 PM Break (Lunch)
1:30-2:30 PM Business Meeting, All Members Welcome
2:30-3:30 PM Niall Keane (Padova) | The Temporality of the Artwork and the Temporality of the Cosmos: Gadamer on Play, Symbol, Festival
3:30-3:45 PM Break
3:45-5:15 PM Keynote Address: Dan Tate, St. Bonaventure | Gadamer on Lyric and the Recovery of Language
The CFP for the 2021 NASPH Annual Meeting can be found here.
This year’s conference will be held October 7-9 at Grand Valley State University in Grand Rapids, Michigan. The deadline for submissions is July 1.