The philosophy of Gadamer / Jean Grondin ; translated by Kathryn Plant.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations; Translator's Note; Introduction; 1900; The work; 1 The Problem of Method and the Project of a Hermeneutics of the Human Sciences; The problem of the beginning according to Rilke: where does our power to live in a world come from?; Understanding and event: being rather than consciousness; The destruction of aesthetics in the name of the humanist tradition; The Kantian turning-point; From the aesthetics of taste to that of genius; The abstraction of aesthetic consciousness; 2 Truth after Art

The critique of subjectivism in modern aesthetics: the game of art is elsewhereMetamorphosis and recognition; The temporality of the work of art and the exemplary status of tragedy; The presentation of truth in the non-performing arts; Hermeneutic consequences of truth rediscovered in art; 3 The Destruction of Prejudices in Nineteenth-Century Aesthetics and Epistemology; The critique of Romantic hermeneutics; Self-effacement in the historical school; The three aporiae of Dilthey and historicism; The phenomenological opening; 4 Vigilance and Horizon in Hermeneutics

The constellation of understandingPrejudices and things themselves: which aporia?; Help from temporal distance?; The silent work of history; The vigilance of a historically effective consciousness; The immemorial canonicity of tradition and of the classical; The ethical vigilance of application; The mirages of reflexion and the bugbear of relativism; 5 The Dialogue that We Are; Towards the uncanny nearness of language; From Platonic forgetfulness of language to its Augustinian recall; The conceptualization and the universality of rhetoric; Conclusion; The truth of the word

The speculative truth of languageThe universal aspect of hermeneutics: the universality of aspect or of finitude; Hermeneutics as metaphysics of finitude; Notes; Bibliography; Index

The ideas of the German philosopher, Hans-Georg Gadamer have had considerable influence both in their own right as the leading modern exposition of philosophical hermeneutics and interpreting the works of Heidegger, Plato and Hegel. This work covers the trail of Gadamer's thought. Taking 'Truth and Method' (1960, translated 1975) as the axis of the interpretation of Gadamer's thought, Jean Grondin lays out the key themes of the work - method, humanism, aesthetic judgement, truth, the work of history - with exemplary clarity. Gadamer's concerns are situated in the context of traditional philoso.

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