Lectures connected with the release of the book Hans-Herbert Kögler’s Critical Hermeneutics

0566365 - FLÚ 2023 eng U - Conference, Workshop Arrangement
Dunaj, Ľubomír
Lectures connected with the release of the book Hans-Herbert Kögler’s Critical Hermeneutics.
[Prague, 06.06.2022-06.06.2022, (W-WRD 2/2)]
Institutional support: RVO:67985955
Keywords : critical hermeneutics * Heidegger * Kögler
OECD category: Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
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Hermeneutic ontology supports a notion of reflexive agency that can mediate one’s own situatedness in specific cultural and social contexts with the critical task to unmask, critique, and transcend one’s power-defined identities and practices. Yet if the notion of reflexive agency establishes thus a foothold to overcome the deconstruction of the situated autonomous self—and thus enables a situated critical theory—the question arises: Can a hermeneutic phenomenology provide us with the normative grounds to recognize the Other both as a universally valuable and yet specifically situated subject? The cognitive capacity of empathy, understood as intersubjective perspective-taking, yields the dialogic recognition of the Other. Three contemporary challenges are addressed: Are situated agents even capable of orienting themselves toward such a moral stance of universal recognition? Is such a theory culturally limited or does it provide us with a potentially non-ethnocentric grounding of moral understanding? Finally, is such a reflexive ethic of empathetic recognition sufficiently rich in outlook to address the situatedness in power and domination that defines a core target of critical social theory?
Permanent Link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0339152