Volume 68 (2013), 3

This is the first part of the paper in which it is claimed that there is exactly one se- mantically relevant pragmatic process, namely saturation. Saturation ascribes content to an expression (or another suitable syntactic unit) with respect to the context of its use. Saturation is usually discerned from so-called free enrichment which is supposed to be another… Read more

The paper deals with Heidegger’s separating the pre-socratic thinkers (namely Heraclitus and Parmenides) from the other Greek philosophers in his lecture What is philosophy? The reason is to be seen in that the former still lived in harmony with the original Greek conceiving of Being. Since Plato and Aristotle the philosophers have been gradually forgetting the… Read more

The paper aims at explaining Antoine Berman’s “hermeneutic turn”, as exhibited in his final and posthumous publication Toward a Translation Criticism: John Donne, from the perspective of the Heideggerian and Ricœurian hermeneutics. In the first part of this paper, we deal with the overall nature of Berman’s hermeneutic turn. In the second part we try to discover… Read more