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Nicholas Davey (born 8 August 1950) is a British philosopher and professor of philosophy at the
University of Dundee The University of Dundee is a public research university based in Dundee, Scotland. It was founded as a university college in 1881 with a donation from the prominent Baxter family of textile manufacturers. The institution was, for most of its ...
. He is known for his expertise in aesthetics,
hermeneutics Hermeneutics () is the theory and methodology of interpretation, especially the interpretation of biblical texts, wisdom literature, and philosophical texts. As necessary, hermeneutics may include the art of understanding and communication. ...
, and his work on
Hans-Georg Gadamer Hans-Georg Gadamer (; ; 11 February 1900 – 13 March 2002) was a German philosopher of the continental tradition, best known for his 1960 on hermeneutics, '' Truth and Method'' (''Wahrheit und Methode''). Life Family and early life Gad ...
. 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. Davey is an active member of the Scottish Centre for Continental Philosophy.


Books

* ''Unfinished Worlds. Hermeneutics, Aesthetics and Gadamer.'' Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013. * ''Unquiet Understanding: Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics.'' New York: SUNY Press, 2007.


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. * “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. ee 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.


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External links


Nicholas Davey at University of Dundee

Nicholas Davey at Google Scholar

Christopher Watkin on Davey's book, Unfinished Worlds
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