The Historicity of Understanding and the Problem of Relativism in Gadamer`s Philosophical Hermeneutics

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CHAPTER I. THE PROBLEM Of RELATIVISM AND THE HISTORICITY OF UNDERSTANDING 1. Historical Relativism and Hermeneutic Understanding 2. The Historicity of Understanding 3. Constraints of Historical Hermeneutics CHAPTER II. HERMENEUTICS AND HISTORICAL UNDERSTANDING 1. Hermeneutics and the Method of the Historical Sciences A. Critique of Hermeneutics as a Universal Method B. Hermeneutics as Historical Method 2. The Historicity of Understanding a Hermeneutic Principle A. Interpretation of Texts B. Historical Mediation as Application to the Present CHAPTER III. TRANSCENDENTAL ELEMENTS OF HERMENEUTIC EXPERIENCE 1. Experience, Understanding and Interpretation 2. Interpretation and Understanding 3. The Historicity of Experience 4. The Experience of Art 5. Practical Experience and Judgment 6. Hermeneutic Experience and Its Conditions CHAPTER IV. METHODOLOGICAL AND CRITICAL PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHICAL HERMENEUTICS I. Canons of the Objectivity of 91 IV The Problem of Relativism in Gadamer Interpretation: Betti 2. Validity of Interpretations: Hirsch 3. Critical Norms and Hermeneutics: Habermas 4. Transcendental Conditions of Critique: Apel 5. Hermeneutics And Perspectivism CHAPTER V. ONTOLOGICAL CONDITIONS OF PHILOSOPHICAL HERMENEUTICS 1. Transcending the Limits of Method and Critique 2. Language as the Ontological Ground of Hermeneutic Experience 3. Constitution of Historical Continuity and Temporality