Reality and Hermeneutics

Bonn Studies in the New Humanities

Edited by Elke Brendel, Philip Freytag, Markus Gabriel, Marion Gymnich, Birgit Ulrike Münch and Rainer Schäfer

Advisory Board: Jocelyn Benoist, Alice Crary, Günter Figal†, Jean Grondin, Monika Kaup, Tobias Keiling, Paul Kottman, Irmgard Männlein-Robert, Jürgen Müller, Takahiro Nakajima, Jessica Riskin, Xudong Zhang

For quite some time it has been hard to avoid the conclusion that the kinds of knowledge produced in the humanities have suffered an increasing loss of authority. Taking this diagnosis as its starting point, the new book series Reality and Hermeneutics seeks to renew the authority of knowledge in the humanities through a revised concept of hermeneutic objectivity in the attempt of overcoming the conventional oppositions of reality and hermeneutics, explanation and understanding, the natural sciences on the one hand and the humanities and cultural studies on the other. In this spirit, the series offers a forum for contributions that understand the disciplines of the humanities in their diversity as a space for reflection on this kind of intellectual reality. As such, the series aims to facilitate productive exchange both within and between these disciplines. It also aims at drawing attention to phenomena that, due to being essentially interconnected with the natural sciences and technological developments, cannot be adequately described and reflected on by these disciplines alone.
The series is supported by the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University of Bonn, in cooperation with The Institute for Philosophy and the New Humanities, New School for Social Research, New York, and the East Asian Academy for the New Liberal Arts, University of Tokyo.

ISSN: 2751-708X / eISSN: 2751-7098 - Suggested citation: RH