The Philosophy of Gadamer
- UK Acumen 2003
- 180p
- Continental European Philosophy; 200300ENGGPS3 .
includes index and biblioraphy
1 The Problem of Method and the Project of a Hermeneutics of the Human Sciences 17 The problem of the beginning according to Rilke: where does our power to live in a world come from? 17 Understanding and event: being rather than consciousness 19 The destruction of aesthetics in the name of the humanist tradition 22 The Kantian turning-point 28 From the aesthetics of taste to that of genius 31 The abstraction of aesthetic consciousness 35 2 Truth after Art 39 The critique of subjectivism in modern aesthetics: the game of art is elsewhere 39 Metamorphosis and recognition 42 The temporality of the work of art and the exemplary status of tragedy 46 The presentation of truth in the non-performing arts 48 Hermeneutic consequences of truth rediscovered in art 52 3 The Destruction of Prejudices in Nineteenth-Century Aesthetics and Epistemology The critique of Romantic hermeneutics 55 Self-effacement in the historical school 61 The three aporiae ofDilthey and historicism 65 The phenomenological opening 70 4 Vigilance and Horizon in Hermeneutics 79 The constellation of understanding 79 Prejudices and things themselves: which aporia? 84 Help from temporal distance? 88 The silent work of history 90 The vigilance of a historically effective consciousness 93 The immemorial canonicity of tradition and of the classical 96 The ethical vigilance of application 100 The mirages of reflexion and the bugbear of relativism 111 5 The Dialogue that We Are 123 Towards the uncanny nearness of language 123 From Platonic forgetfulness of language to its Augustinian recall 130 The conceptualization and the universality of rhetoric 137 Conclusion 143 The truth of the word 143 The speculative truth of language 146 The universal aspect of hermeneutics: the universality of aspect or offinitude 148 Hermeneutics as metaphysics of finitude 150