This book presents the first detailed treatment of Gadamer's account of the nature of meaning. It argues both that this account is philosophically valuable in its own right and that understanding it sheds new light on his wider hermeneutical project.

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Hauptverfasser:	DaVia, Carlo (VerfasserIn), Lynch, Greg (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York ; London Routledge 2024
Schriftenreihe:	Routledge studies in Twentieth-Century philosophy
Schlagworte:	Gadamer, Hans-Georg > 1900-2002 Hermeneutik
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Zusammenfassung:	This book presents the first detailed treatment of Gadamer's account of the nature of meaning. It argues both that this account is philosophically valuable in its own right and that understanding it sheds new light on his wider hermeneutical project. Cover -- Endorsement Page -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations of Frequently Cited Works by Gadamer -- Introduction -- 0.1 Sinn Happens -- 0.2 Looking Ahead -- Notes -- Chapter 1: Occasionality -- 1.1 Speaking of Occasions -- 1.2 Occasionality as Irreducible -- 1.3 The Priority of Natural Language -- 1.3.1 Technical Terms -- 1.3.2 Artificial Languages -- 1.4 Meaning and Metaphor -- 1.5 Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Ideality -- 2.1 The Example of the Performing Arts -- 2.1.1 Art as Play and Gebilde -- 2.1.2 The Temporality of the Aesthetic -- 2.2 Ideality and Textuality -- 2.2.1 Texts as Self-Sufficient Wholes -- 2.2.2 Texts as Vocative State-ments -- 2.3 From Writing Back to Speech -- 2.4 Unprincipled Unity -- 2.5 Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 3: Interpreting Correctly -- 3.1 Gjesdal's Critique -- 3.1.1 The Pitfalls of Political Humanism -- 3.1.2 An Initial Response -- 3.2 The Fall and Rise of Substantive Hermeneutics -- 3.2.1 Schleiermacher and the Eclipse of die Sache -- 3.2.2 The Hermeneutic Centrality of die Sache -- 3.3 The Norm of the Subject Matter -- 3.3.1 The Fore-conception of Completeness as Interpretive Norm -- 3.3.2 The Force of Charity's 'Ought' -- 3.4 Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Originalism and the Fusion of Horizons -- 4.1 Horizons as Backgrounds -- 4.2 Horizons as Foregrounds -- 4.3 Knowing the Language -- Notes -- Chapter 5: Aspects of Being -- 5.1 Aspects as Schematizations -- 5.2 Aspects as Parts -- 5.3 The Finitude of Being -- 5.3.1 Being and Intelligibility -- 5.3.2 Infinite and Finite Correspondence -- 5.3.3 Putting Finitude First -- 5.3.4 Being That Can Be Understood -- 5.4 Aspects as Presentations -- 5.5 Conclusion -- Notes -- Chapter 6: Essences -- 6.1 Essences as Causes -- 6.2 Gadamer as Essentialist.
Beschreibung:	239 Seiten
ISBN:	9781032247984 9781032249933