(P/B) TRUTH AND METHOD

Παρουσίαση

Written in the 1960s, TRUTH AND METHOD is Gadamer's magnum opus. Looking behind the self-consciousness of science, he discusses the tense relationship between truth and methodology. In examining the different experiences of truth, he aims to "present the hermeneutic phenomenon in its fullest extent. (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

Translator's preface
Introduction
Foreword to the second edition
PART I:
The question of truth as it emerges in the experience of art
The significance of the humanist tradition for the human sciences
The subjectivization of aesthetics through the Kantian critique
Retrieving the question of artistic truth
The ontology of the work of art and its hermeneutic significance
PART II:
The extension of the question of truth to understanding in the human sciences
Historical preparation
The questionableness of romantic hermeneutics and its application to the study of history
Dilthey's entanglement in the aporias of historicism
Overcoming the epistemological problem through phenomenological research
Elements of a theory of hermeneutic experience
The recovery of the fundamental hermeneutic problem
Analysis of historically effected consciousness
PART III:
The ontological shift of hermeneutics guided by language
Language and Hermeneutics
Language as the medium of hermeneutic experience
The development of the concept of language
Language as horizon of a hermeneutic ontology
Appendices and supplements
Afterword
Subject index
Author index