Interpretation and the Problem of the Intention of the Author H.- G.Gadamer Vs E.D.Hirsch

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I. The Problem of Relativity and Objectivity in Interpretation 1. The Background of the Problem 2. The Problem of Method and the Critique of the Subject-Object Ontology II. The Problem of the Identification of Meaning with the Author`s Intention 1. Gadamer`s Rejection of the Identification of Meaning with the Author`s Intention 2. The Problem of the Impossibility of Intentionless Meaning: Knapp and Michaels 3. Argument for Coherence: Juhl 4. From the Indeterminacy of Language to the Determinacy of Meaning: Hirsch 5. The Occasional Character of Author:Gadamer III. The Problem of Textual Identity 1. Some Objections to the Unity of Meaning and Significance in Gadamer 2. Perspectivism and Textual Identity: Hirsch 3. Hirsch`s Notion of Application 4. The hermeneutical Autonomy of the Object:Betti 5. Dynamic Identity of the Text: Gadamer vi Interpretation and the Intention of the Author IV. The Problem of Truth 1. General Remarks 2. Heidegger`s Notion of Truth in Being and Time 3. The Temporality of the Experience of Truth: Gadamer 4. Historical Continuity of the Mediations of the Text 5. Subject Matter (Sache) as the Transcendental Ground