Language and Interpretation : Hermeneutics from East West Perspective

Contents: Editor\'s preface. 1. The inevitable interpretation and its proper implementation/Krishna Roy. 2. Hermeneutics and phenomenology/Kalyan Bagchi. 3. Hermeneutic experience and the law of Karma/Binod Kumar Agarwala. 4. Understanding the story of understanding/Chinmoy Goswami. 5. Language and disclosure of meaning/Goutam Biswas. 6. Hermeneutics and social science: Erklaren Versus Verstehen/Sharad Deshpande. 7. Language, language-understanding and communication (From the Chomskian perspective)/Kumar Mitra. 8. Gadamerian hermeneutics: between strangers and friends/Kanchana Mahadevan. 9. Extrapolating hermeneutics and its circle of understanding/P.K. Mukhopadhyay. 10. Apropos of devices and canons of interpretation: an ancient Indian perspective/Karunasindhu Das. 11. Text and interpretation: Indian context/D.N. Tiwari. 12. Hermeneutics: some methodological claims/Satrughna Behera. 13. Understanding, interpretation and language: A reading into Heidegger\'s hermeneutics/M. Parameshwaran. 14. The implication of tradition and understanding in the hermeneutic ontology of H.G. Gadamer/T.K. Badrinath. 15. Translating texts and hermeneutics: Kabir in Tagore\'s translation/Manjulika Ghosh. 16. The concept of being in Indian tradition/Raghunath Ghosh. References. Index.

"The volume has a two-fold purpose: (i) to acquaint the Indian readers and academic community with some prominent trends in hermeneutics and text interpretation coming from veteran and young scholars in the field and (ii) to create an interest in the current research undertaken by Indian scholars in the field of philosophy and allied disciplines. This is deemed important because hermeneutics, though established in the West, is still in its infancy in the academic circles and is accorded an auxiliary status as a less significant concern.

The sincere readers of these essays are hoped to bring to them their own perspectives and understanding, which is to say that every reader will have his own hermeneutical exercise and engagements. This volume will be of use to the beginners as well as the discerning scholars in the domain of hermeneutics." (jacket)