Nicholas Davey
{{Short description|British philosopher}}
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|school_tradition = Continental
| institutions = University of Dundee
|main_interests = hermeneutics, aesthetics, contemporary European philosophy, Buddhist Thought
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| education = University of Sussex MA and D.Phil History of Ideas, University of York BA History and Philosophy, University of Tübingen
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|influences = Hans-Georg Gadamer
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Nicholas Davey (born 8 August 1950) is a British philosopher and professor of philosophy at the University of Dundee. He is known for his expertise in aesthetics, hermeneutics, and his work on Hans-Georg Gadamer.{{Cite book|title=Routledge Companion to Hermeneutics|editor-last=Malpas|editor-first=Jeff|publisher=Routledge|year=2015|isbn=978-0415644587|location=London|pages=504, 506, 512, 515, 533, 539, 540, 545, 549}}{{Cite journal|last=Zabala|first=Santiago|date=2011|title=Review of Unquiet Understanding|url=https://www.c-scp.org/2010/10/06/nicholas-davey-unquiet-understanding|journal=Symposium|volume=15}} Davey has also played a leading role in founding several research groups and institutes at the University of Dundee, which include Theoros, Hermeneutica Scotia (research groups), and the university's Arts and Humanities Research Institute.{{Cite web|url=https://www.dundee.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/details/nicholas-davey.php#tab-Research|title=University of Dundee Faculty Profile|access-date=January 4, 2019}}
Davey is an active member of the Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy.{{Cite web|url=https://scot-cont-phil.org/|title=Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy|access-date=January 4, 2019}}
Books
- Unfinished Worlds. Hermeneutics, Aesthetics and Gadamer. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013. {{ISBN|978-0748686223}}
- Unquiet Understanding: Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics. New York: SUNY Press, 2007. {{ISBN|978-0791468425}}
Book chapters
- "Hermeneutics, Structuralism, and Poststructuralism." In The Routledge Companion to Hermeneutics, edited by Jeff Malpas and Hans-Helmut Gander, pp. 600–611. New York: Routledge, 2017. {{ISBN|978-1138574632}}
- “Hermeneutics, Art and Transcendence.” In Gadamer’s Hermeneutics and the Art of Conversation (International Studies in Hermeneutics and Phenomenology), edited by A. Wiercinski, pp. 371–382. Berlin: Lit Verlag, 2011.
- “Getting the Measure: Language and Reasoning in Philosophical Hermeneutics.” In Internationales Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik, pp. 123 –142. Tübingen: Mohr/Siebeck, 2011.
- “Philosophy Research and the Quest for the Unpredictable.” In The Public Value of the Humanities, edited by Jonathan Bate, pp. 303–312. Bloomsbury Academic, 2011. [see reviews in THES 24 March 2011, p. 29 and Financial Times, 24 February 2012].
- “Language and Reason in Philosophical Hermeneutics”, Studia Humanitatis: Ars Hermeneutica, 2011, 61-84
- “Philosophical Hermeneutics, An Education for All Seasons”, in Education, Dialogue and Hermeneutics, ed. by Paul Fairfield (London: Continuum, 2011), pp. 39–60.
- “Truth, Method and Transcendence.” In Consequences of Hermeneutics, ed. by Malpas and Zabala, pp. 25–44. Illinois: North Western University Press, 2010.
- “Written in Stone; Reflections on Word and Image." In Internationales Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik, edited by Gunter Figal. Tübingen: Mohr/Siebeck, 2009.
- Essays on “Baumgarten,” “Aesthetic Relativism” and "Gilles Deleuze." In Blackwell Companion for Aesthetics, pp. 234–238. London: Wiley-Blackwells, 2009.
- "Hermeneutical Application: A Dialogical Approach to the Art Theory Question." Internationales Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik, edited by Gunter Figal, pp. 93–107.Tübingen: Mohr/Siebeck, 2008.
Articles
- "Critical Excess and the Reasonableness of Interpretation", Internationales Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik (2013).
- "Aesthetic Reasoning: A Hermeneutic Approach", Nordic Journal for Aesthetics (2012/2013).
- "Philosophical Hermeneutics, Art and the Language of Art", Aesthetic Pathways, 1:1 (2010), 4–29.
- "Hume i Nietzsche o jazni i tozsamosc", trans. by Dawid Misztal, Nowa Krytyka, 20-21 (2006), 149–172.
- "Lest we Forget: The Question of Being and Philosophical Hermeneutics", Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 40:3 (2009), 239–254.
- "Editorial", Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 40:3 (2009), 234–238.
- "On the Polity of Experience: Towards a Hermeneutics of Attentiveness", Renascence, 56:4 (2004), 217–234.
- "Aesthetic F(r)ictions", Journal of Visual Art Practice, 4:2&3 (2005), 135–149.
- "Sitting Uncomfortably: Gadamer's Approach to Portraiture", Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, 34:3 (2003), 231–246.
- “Arts Enigma: Adorno and Iser On Interpretation”, Existentia, 12:1-2 (2003), 155–168.
- “Hermeneutics and the Challenge of Writing: Gadamer and Cixous on Speaking and Writing", Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology”, 33:3,(2002), 299–316.
References
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External links
- [https://www.dundee.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/details/nicholas-davey.php#tab-Profile Nicholas Davey at University of Dundee]
- [https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Nicholas+Davey%22 Nicholas Davey at Google Scholar]
- [https://christopherwatkin.com/2013/05/14/nicholas-davey-unfinished-worlds-hermeneutics-aesthetics-and-gadamer-introduction-pdf/ Christopher Watkin on Davey's book, Unfinished Worlds]
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