Language and Linguisticality in Gadamer's Hermeneutics

by Schmidt, Lawrence K.; Dallmayr, Fred; Davey, Nicholas; Fehér, István M.; Gadamer, Hans-Georg; Grondin, Jean; Sallis, John; Smith, Christopher; Vedder, Ben

• ISBN13: 9780739101759
• ISBN10: 0739101757
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-10-11
• Publisher: Lexington Books

Summary

In this book, internationally recognized scholars in philosophical hermeneutics discuss various aspects of language and linguisticality. The translations of Hans-Georg Gadamer's two recent essays provoke a preliminary discussion on the philosopher's polemic claim in Truth and Method--"Being that can be understood is language." Topics addressed by the contributors include the relationship of rituals to tradition and the immemorial; the unity of the word; conversation; translation and conceptuality; and the interrelationship between the art of writing and linguisticality. This work is of critical importance to anyone interested in Gadamer's claims regarding the boundaries of language, the transition from the prelinguistic to linguistic realms, and the role of rituals in this transition.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Language in a Hermeneutic Ontology	1	(8)
Lawrence K. Schmidt
Boundaries of Language (1985)	9	(10)
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Lawrence K. Schmidt
Towards a Phenomenology of Ritual and Language (1992)	19	(32)
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Lawrence K. Schmidt
Monika Reuss
Play, Festival, and Ritual in Gadamer: On the Theme of the Immemorial in His Later Works	51	(8)
Jean Grondin
Lawrence K. Schmidt
On the Hermeneutic Understanding of Language: Word, Conversation, and Subject Matter	59	(8)
Istvan M. Feher
Lawrence K. Schmidt
The Hermeneutics of Translation	67	(10)
John Sallis
On the Other Side of Writing: Thoughts on Gadamer's Notion of Schriftlichkeit	77	(36)
Nicholas Davey
Plato's Khora as a Linguistic Index of Groundlessness	113	(14)
P. Christopher Smith
Participation and Ritual: Dewey and Gadamer on Language	127	(16)
Lawrence K. Schmidt
A Written History of Effects: From Concept to Application	143	(12)
Ben Vedder
The Enigma of Health: Gadamer at Century's End	155	(16)
Fred Dallmayr
Notes	171	(16)
Index	187	(4)
About the Contributors	191