The Philosophy of Gadamer

by Grondin, Jean; Plant, Kathryn

• ISBN13: 9780773524705
• ISBN10: 0773524703
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-05-01
• Publisher: McGill Queens Univ Pr

Summary

Grondin situates Gadamer's concerns in the context of traditional philosophical issues, showing, for example, how Gadamer both continues and significantly modifies Descartes' approach to the philosophical problem of method and advances rather than simply follows Heidegger's treatment of the relationship of thinking to language. In doing this Grondin shows that the issues of philosophical hermeneutics are relevant to contemporary concerns in science and history.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	vii
Translator's Note	ix
Introduction	1	(1)
1900	1	(2)
The work	3	(14)
The Problem of Method and the Project of a Hermeneutics of the Human Sciences	17	(22)
The problem of the beginning according to Rilke: where does our power to live in a world come from?	17	(2)
Understanding and event: being rather than consciousness	19	(3)
The destruction of aesthetics in the name of the humanist tradition	22	(6)
The Kantian turning-point	28	(3)
From the aesthetics of taste to that of genius	31	(4)
The abstraction of aesthetic consciousness	35	(4)
Truth after Art	39	(16)
The critique of subjectivism in modern aesthetics: the game of art is elsewhere	39	(3)
Metamorphosis and recognition	42	(4)
The temporality of the work of art and the exemplary status of tragedy	46	(2)
The presentation of truth in the non-performing arts	48	(4)
Hermeneutic consequences of truth rediscovered in art	52	(3)
The Destruction of Prejudices in Nineteenth-Century Aesthetics and Epistemology	55	(24)
The critique of Romantic hermeneutics	55	(6)
Self-effacement in the historical school	61	(4)
The three aporiae of Dilthey and historicism	65	(5)
The phenomenological opening	70	(9)
Vigilance and Horizon in Hermeneutics	79	(44)
The constellation of understanding	79	(5)
Prejudices and things themselves: which aporia?	84	(4)
Help from temporal distance?	88	(2)
The silent work of history	90	(3)
The vigilance of a historically effective consciousness	93	(3)
The immemorial canonicity of tradition and of the classical	96	(4)
The ethical vigilance of application	100	(11)
The mirages of reflexion and the bugbear of relativism	111	(12)
The Dialogue that We Are	123	(20)
Towards the uncanny nearness of language	123	(7)
From Platonic forgetfulness of language to its Augustinian recall	130	(7)
The conceptualization and the universality of rhetoric	137	(6)
Conclusion	143	(14)
The truth of the word	143	(3)
The speculative truth of language	146	(2)
The universal aspect of hermeneutics: the universality of aspect or of finitude	148	(2)
Hermeneutics as metaphysics of finitude	150	(7)
Notes	157	(16)
Bibliography	173	(4)
Index	177