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Showing 1 to 20 of 32 for “"philosophical hermeneutics"”.
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Interpretation as epieikeia: Aristotelian ethics as a paradigm for Hans-Georg Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics
… the relationship between Hans-Georg Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics―focusing on his magnum opus, Truth and Method (1960)―and Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. Though he patiently waits until two thirds of the book to explicitly make such a rapprochement, Gadamer unambiguously claims …
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Intertextual chaos? Investigating Paul’s use of Hosea in Romans 9:25-26 in light of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics
… being reached. This thesis utilizes Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics as a clarifying way forward. Despite the significance and relevance of his work, Gadamer has not influenced biblical scholarship as deeply as one might have expected. The most significant contribution this thesis makes, …
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Projective and introjective identification in a couple therapy case study: a hermeneutical examination
… context. The method, Gadatner's (1993) philosophical hermeneutics, involved a dialectical moving back and forth between the more intrapsychic standpoint of the case study and the intersubjective perspectives of philosophical hermeneutics and recent object relations thinking (Ogden, …
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Promoting the quality of life of elderly people in nursing home care : a hermeneutical approach
… It contains two chapters. The first discusses philosophical hermeneutics, which forms the conceptual and methodological framework of the research; and the second reviews aspects of the literature of the quality of life and evaluates it in terms of the purposes of the research. Part two of the …
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Finding my woof by tweaking the warp : a personal account of an attempt to better understand learning in a Communication Design course
… Enactivism as a discourse, has its origins in philosophical hermeneutics and means that through our living in the world we are in fact creating our world, where inner and outer specify one another through embodied action.
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Future nostalgia in the twenty-first century: Hauntology, hermeneutics, and historicity in contemporary popular music
… offers a critical analysis and discussion of the philosophical and popular culture concept of hauntology and its application to popular music and theory of history, arguing that hauntology is limited in ways that make it unequipped for understanding popular music’s historicity as the form develops …
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Saying the World Anew: A Philosophical Understanding of Communication as Testimony
… Drawing from fundamental ontology and philosophical hermeneutics, this project suggests we shift our understanding of communication as a process of information exchange toward communication as an enactment of testimony. This leads to an examination of the rhetorical figure of hyperbole. …
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Towards a Hermeneutical Understanding of the Listening Process
… dissertation introduces the ideas of Gadamer on philosophical hermeneutics and Fuimara on the connections between listening and hermeneutics to the current discussion. This dissertation argues that the process actually starts when one makes the choice to listen. It distinguishes the choice to …
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Teachers' Images and Narratives of Good Teachers: An Interpretive Inquiry
… teacher. Using a research process informed by philosophical hermeneutics, this study explores the experiences of practicing teachers in order to better understand the phenomenological aspects of being a good teacher. Although the phrase good teacher continues to defy simple definition and was …
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Getting on the Same Page: The Hermeneutics of Peer Feedback in Composition Classrooms
… acts. Grounding peer feedback within philosophical hermeneutics explains why empirical research and anecdotal evidence illustrate contradictions regarding peer feedbacks benefits to students. Students' interpretations of what is happening/supposed to happen within peer feedback …
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From Reflective Practice to Practical Wisdom: A Phenomenological Study of Preservice Teachers' Educational Growth in a Method Course
… and performance in method courses. Theories of philosophical hermeneutics, phenomenology, and practical wisdom by Dewey (1933), Habermas (1973), Gadamer (1975), van Marten (1990), Higgins (2001), Eisner (2002), and Schwandt (2002) guided this study. Theoretical and methodological principles of …
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Meeting the Absurd: Camus and the Communication Ethics of the Everyday
… of the absurd provides an opportunity to examine philosophical hermeneutics in relation to Camus's insights. The work of Paul Ricoeur and Hans-Georg Gadamer, emphasizing the role of metaphor and how it connects the absurd as used by Camus to our current postmodern moment, provides the …
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Strangers in strange lands: a hermeneutic inquiry into becoming a journalist.
… Hans- Georg Gadamer, a practical application of philosophical hermeneutics is advocated to holistically venture beyond the theory-practice dualism that typically hallmarks journalism education today; the importance of a reflexive sense of journalistic being is instead presented as integral to the …
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Defining and understanding the role of cofaqs in teacher education : a multiphase sequential exploratory mixed methods hermeneutic study
… connoisseurship-bricolage derived from philosophical hermeneutics, educational connoisseurship, and bricolage, this study consisted of four distinct phases: currere, focus group interviews analyzed using grounded theory analysis, repertory grid interviews analyzed through Generalized …
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Encounters in documentary practice: a narrative hermeneutic inquiry with undergraduate first-time filmmakers.
… Inquiry research design informed by the philosophical hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer. Through one-to-one conversational interviews with participants and the writing of eight first person stories, I give narrative hermeneutic interpretations of these filmmaking experiences and reveal …
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Uno specchio frammentario. La soggettività umana in H. G. Gadamer tra determinazione storica e responsabilità al singolare
… analyse the terms in which Hans Georg Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics considered the idea of human subjectivity. The way that has been developed at first took up again the fundamental gadamerian text, Truth and Method, finding in it the lines of an overcoming the subjectivity and of its …
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Artistry in Social Science Research
… photographic research practices guided by philosophical hermeneutics and practice theory. Participants demonstrate that photographic-based research practices are messy, interdisciplinary, and complex because of the shared, entwined histories of photography, disciplinary traditions, and …
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Revisiting the Fork in the Road: Exploring the Meaning of Critical Incident Stress Among Intensive Care Unit Nurses
… an interpretive approach based on Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics. Nine ICU RNs were interviewed to gain insight and further understanding of this topic. The interpretations from this work suggested that nurses attempted to cope with critical incident stress by functioning in …
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O pensamento de Ronald Dworkin aplicado à liberdade de expressão artística e uma interface com o caso South Park
… John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume, and philosophical hermeneutics theorists; (b) to deepen the theory of argumentative nature that allows the search for truth in moral issues through coherent argumentation amalgamated into the notion of integrity; (c) to build a Dworkinian interpretation …
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Saving reason : Jurgen Habermas's synthesis of western philosophy.
… reasoning. In so doing, Habermas integrates philosophical hermeneutics and the Linguistic Turn, while using Pragmatism to avoid the Postmodern danger of relativism. The Enlightenment philosophy of the subject as developed from Descartes through Hegel entails aporias of subjectivism. The …
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