The Challenge and Gift of Being-in-the-World: The Hermeneutics of Dwelling and (Be)longing

Małgorzata Hołda is Associate Professor at the Department of British Literature and Culture, University of Lodz, Poland. Her published work explores topics within modern and postmodern novel, philological and philosophical hermeneutics (with special emphasis on Paul Ricœur’s hermeneutics of the self as l’homme capable and Hans-Georg Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics), aesthetics, phenomenology, and postmodern philosophy. She is the author of On Beauty and Being: Hans-Georg Gadamer’s and Virginia Woolf’s Hermeneutics of the Beautiful (2021) and Paul Ricœur’s Concept of Subjectivity and the Postmodern Claim of the Death of the Subject (2018). She is a Senior Associate Fellow of the International Institute for Hermeneutics and a member of the Virginia Woolf Society of Great Britain.

Ramsey Eric Ramsey holds a PhD from the Joint Program in Philosophy and Communication, Purdue University. He is currently professor in the New College at Arizona State University West Valley and Barrett, the Honors College West Valley, where he was dean for 17 years. Prof. Ramsey is the author of The Long Path to Nearness: A Contribution to a Corporeal Philosophy of Communication and the Groundwork for an Ethics of Relief and the co-author of Leaving Us to Wonder: An Essay on the Questions Science Can’t Ask, and originator and co-editor of the book Between Philosophy and Communication. He has published numerous essays and book chapters indebted to hermeneutics in major journals and edited collections. He is also a published poet and has delivered invited lectures in a number of Latin America countries and throughout Europe. Prof. Ramsey is editor of the international journal Analecta Hermeneutica and he is a Senior Associate Fellow of the International Institute for Hermeneutics.