Gadamer

Providing an account of Gadamer's hermeneutics, this book includes an exposition and analysis of such key terms as 'fusion of horizons', 'effective historical consciousness' and 'the logic of question and answer', as well as Gadamer's redefinition of such concepts as 'prejudice', 'authority' and 'tradition'.

Abbreviation

vii

Preface

viii

Introduction

1

(1)

Gadamer in a nutshell

1

(3)

Gadamer and analytic philosophy

4

(7)

The structure of the chapters

11

(6)

1 Who is Gadamer?

17

(13)

Hans-Georg Gadamer: a long life in brief

17

(2)

Gadamer and Heidegger

19

(1)

Gadamer and the Nazis

20

(2)

After the war

22

(1)

Retirement and international acclaim

23

(1)

Gadamer: the man and his work

24

(6)

2 The problem of method

30

(29)

Method and modernity

30

(1)

Descartes and the search for method

31

(3)

Gadamer and method

34

(2)

The revival of tradition, authority and prejudice

36

(8)

3 From hermeneutics to philosophical hermeneutics

44

(1)

What is hermeneutics?

44

(1)

Romantic hermeneutics

45

(6)

Dilthey's hermeneutics

51

(2)

Heidegger's 'hermeneutics of facticity'

53

(6)

4 Truth without method

59

(17)

Gadamer and truth

59

(2)

Truth as experience

61

(3)

Truth is historical

64

(2)

The 'fusion of horizons' and the problems of understanding the past from the site of the present

66

(2)

Effective historical consciousness

68

(2)

Dialogue

70

(2)

The logic of question and answer

72

(4)

5 Gadamer on language and linguisticality

76

(11)

Philosophy and language

76

(4)

Gadamer's account of the nature of language

80

(1)

The hermeneutics of the spoken word

81

(1)

'Being that can be understood is language'

82

(5)

6 Gadamer's aesthetics

87

(18)

Art and truth

87

(3)

Art as play

90

(2)

Art as symbol and festival

92

(3)

Gadamer's poetic turn

95

(2)

Gadamer on ordinary, everyday language

97

(2)

The poem as 'eminent text'

99

(6)

7 The later Gadamer

105

(15)

After Truth and Method

105

(1)

Gadamer and Rorty on solidarity

106

(5)

Applied hermeneutics

111

(9)

8 Fellow travellers and critics

120

(24)

Gadamer now

120

(1)

Gadamer and postmodernism

121

(2)

Fellow travellers: Wittgenstein and Rorty

123

(4)

Gadamer's critics

127

(8)

Deconstructive criticism

135

(4)

Conclusion

139

(5)

Suggestions for further reading

144

(3)

Glossary

147

(7)

Bibliography

154

(4)

Index

158

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