Self-Understanding and Lifeworld

Hans-Helmuth Gander is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Husserl Archive at the University of Freiburg.Ryan Drake is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fairfield University in Connecticut. He specializes in 20th century European philosophy and ancient philosophy.Joshua Rayman is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of South Florida. He is author of Kant on Sublimity and Morality.

"Gander's Self-Understanding and Lifeworld is an eminent text within contemporary Continental philosophy. An English translation is essential and Ryan Drake and Joshua Rayman have done an admirable job preserving the style of the German." -Lawrence K. Schmidt, author of Understanding Hermeneutics

• Translators' IntroductionForeword Introduction1. Exposition of the Connection Between Self-Being, Lifeworld, and History 2. Conception and Outline of the Treatise with an Excursis on the Paratextual Functions of RemarksPart One. In the Network of Texts: Toward the Perspective Character of Understanding3. Inception and Beginning: Toward a Fore-Structure of Understanding4. Approaching the Question of Interpretation: On the Relation of "Author-Text-Reader"5. On the Relation of Writing and Reading to Self-Formation6. The Text as a Connection of Sense in the Horizon of the Occurrence of Tradition as Effective History7. In the Governing Network of Discourse8. The Sense-Creating Potential of Texts: The Modification of the World9. Excursis on the Metaphor of the "Book of the World"10. In the Network of Tradition: On Understanding as an Incursion into the Current of Texts11. On the Interpretive Character of Knowledge in the Wake of the Historicity of Understanding12. Parenthesis on the Discourse of Metaphysics "as such" as a Problem of an Epochal Revaluation in View of a Signature of the Present13. Critical Remarks on the Concept of an Absolute ReasonPart Two. I and World: The Question Concerning the Ground of PhilosophyChapter One. On the Search for the Certainty of the I14. Toward the Task of a Hermeneutical Interpretation of the Concept and its Relation to Everyday Experience: An Approximation15. Wonder and Doubt: On the Entry-Point of Philosophical Reflection16. Under the Spell of Certainty: Descartes' Self-Certainty of the 'I am' as a Hermeneutical Problem17. The Ontological Positioning of the Cartesian Ego Between Acquisition of the Self and Loss of the WorldChapter Two. On Life in Lifeworlds: Critical Considerations of Husserl's Phenomenology of the Lifeworld18. The Concept of 'Lifeworld' as an Indication of the Problem19. Husserl's Recourse to as an "Irruption into the Theoretical Attitude"20. The Problem of Objectivism in the Tension Between and 21. Toward a Philosophical Thematization of Natural Life-in-the-World22. On Husserl's Transcendental Self-Grounding of Philosophy with a View to the Question of the World23. Husserl's Application of the Task of a Lifeworldly Ontology24. The Function of History in Husserl's Transcendental-Phenomenological ConceptionPart Three. Self-Understanding and the Historical World: Basic Traits of a Hermeneutical Ontology of FacticityChapter One. The Hermeneutical Turn: Heidegger's Critical Dialogue with Husserlian Phenomenology25. Husserl versus Heidegger: On Situating their Disagreement26. The Hermeneutical Stance on a Second View27. The 'Blind Spot' in the Phenomenological Eye: Heidegger's Critique of Husserl with a View to the Structure of Carea. Phenomenological Maxims of Research and Cognitive Intentionb. The 'Actual Things of Philosophy': The Being of the Human28. The Metamorphosis of Phenomenology into the Hermeneuticala. In Connection with the Tendencies of Lebensphilosophieb. The Hermeneutical Approach in Pre-Theoretical Lifec. The New Hermeneutical Accentuation of Phenomenology29. The Function and Relation of the Hermeneutical Ontology of Facticity, Fundamental Ontology, and Metontology30. Aspects of a Contemporary Philosophical Situating of the Discourse on FacticityChapter Two. The Experiental Structure of the Self: Toward a Hermeneutics of Factical Historical Life31. The Leap into the World: On Outlining the Factical-Hermeneutical Concept of Experience32. Analysis of Environmental Experience33. Remarks on the Problematic of the Foreign34. The Self-World as the Center of Life-Relations35. The Having-of-Oneself within the Field of Tension between Winning and Losing Oneself36. The Structure of the Self as a Function of Life-Experience37. On the Status of a Hermeneutics of Facticity as Ontological HermeneuticsChapter Three. Application-Destruktion-History: Hermeneutical Sketches of a Philosophy of the Situation38. Hermeneutical Application39. The Critical Sense: On the Task of Phenomenological Destruktion40. History as the Organon of Understanding LifeOpen End41. Retrospective Reflections on the World-Conceptual Relevance of a Hermeneutics of FacticityBibliography