Dimitri Ginev

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Dimitri Ginev
Era 21st-century philosophy
Region Western philosophy
School Philosophy of Science
Continental philosophy
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 Hermeneutics
Cognitive Existentialism
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Dimitri Ginev (born 3 July 1956 in Varna - died 5 June 2021 [1] in Sophia) held the position of Professor of History of Discourses in Cultural Studies at St. Kliment Ohridski University. Ginev specialized in philosophy of science, particularly hermeneutic philosophy of science.

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Career

Dimitri Ginev habilitated at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in 1987 with a thesis on the hermeneutics aspects of post-empirical philosophy of science. He made substantial contributions to hermeneutic philosophy of science, including an ontological conception of social practices and interpretive theory of cultural forms of life. [2] In addition to posts as visiting Fellow in 1990 at the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, he participated in various research projects at the University of Marburg, the University of Düsseldorf, and the Ruhr University Bochum. A fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at Humboldt University of Berlin, and a Fulbright Scholar at the Catholic University of America, he was, most recently, Senior Fellow of the Zukunftskolleg at the University of Konstanz. In 1992, Ginev founded the international journal Studia Culturologica.

Work

Ginev’s work engages features of hermeneutic philosophizing, [3] and aims at mediating between Continental and Analytic ways of thinking. [4] The project of this effort at mediation undertakes a gradual change of the established metaphysico-epistemological identities of the sciences in favor of ones shaped by the interpretative reflexivity of the research processes. In sum, the path leads from hermeneutic theory of science via an ontological conception of social practices to an interpretative theory of cultural forms of life.

Ginev’s hermeneutic realism states that the facticity of scientific practices cannot be separated from objectified factuality. [5] From this perspective, reality – as revealed by research practices, here see the work of Patrick Aidan Heelan and Hans-Jörg Rheinberger – manifests itself in the continuous pre-structuring of factual structures.

Ginev also proposed a hermeneutic version of social theory, arguing that a reality sui generis should be attributed to interrelated social practices. [6] In his earlier work, investigating the genesis of cultural forms of life, he justified the peculiarity of the social as an interweaving of practices. [7]   The concept of the political elaborated by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouffe plays an important role in shaping this view. His later work on social theory of social practices is oriented more towards practice theory. [8]   Criticizing the attachment of the theoretical consideration of social practices to the problem of corporeality, Ginev focuses on expanding the concept of facticity. Theory of the narrativity of social practices, drawn from Ginev's reading of Wilhelm Schapp's philosophy, complements this amplified concept of facticity. [9] Ginev argues that any approach to the facticity of the social requires double hermeneutics, which results from the interaction of a methodological interpretation and a phenomenological constitution theory. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ Andreev, Jassen (2021). "Dimitri Ginev, 1956–2021" (PDF). Verlag Königshausen & Neumann (Ausgabe Herbst/Winter 2021/22) (in German). Archived from the original (PDF) on October 26, 2021. Retrieved January 6, 2022.
  2. ↑ Angelova, Paula; Andreev, Jassen; Lensky; Emil, eds. (2017). "Preface of the Editors". Das interpretative Universum. Dimitri Ginev zum 60. Geburtstag gewidmet. Würzburg: Köngishausen und Neumann. pp. 9–13. ISBN   978-3-8260-6191-2.
  3. ↑ Andreev, Jassen. "Bookreview: Entre Anthropologie et Herméneutique". Studia Phaenomenologica. 6 (2006): 453–487 – via Philosophy Dokumentation Center.
  4. ↑ Lensky, Emil (2020). "Review of D. Ginev (2019) Scientific Conceptualization and Ontological Difference. Berlin/Boston: Walter de Gruyter 2019, pp. 280 + x. ISBN 978-3-11-060373-6". AI & Society. doi:10.1007/s00146-020-01036-5. S2CID   225319604.
  5. ↑ Glazebrook, Trish (30 August 2018). "Review of D. Ginev Hermeneutic Realism: Reality Within Scientific Inquiry". Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
  6. ↑ Ginev, Dimitri (2019). Toward a Hermeneutic Theory of Social Practices. Between Existential Analytic and Social Theory. London/New York: Routledge.
  7. ↑ Ginev, Dimitri (1993). "Das utopische Defizit der Moderne. Die Perspektive des hermeneutischen Anarchismus". Neue Realitäten. Herausforderung der Philosophie, Sektionsbeiträge, XVI Deutscher Kongress für Philosophie. Berlin. pp. 305–312. ISBN   3-7983-1553-1.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  8. ↑ Ginev, Dimitri (2013). Practices and Possibilities. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann.
  9. ↑ Jassen, Andreev. "За Вплетеност и откритост". В-к Култура (v-k Kultura ). 31 (2006).
  10. ↑ Ginev, Dimitri (2008). Transformationen der Hermeneutik. Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann. pp. 25–48.
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