Truth and method
Truth and Method is a landmark work of 20th century thought which established Hans Georg-Gadamer as one of the most important philosophical voices of the 20th Century. In this book, Gadamer established the field of 'philosophical hermeneutics': exploring the nature of knowledge, the book rejected traditional quasi-scientific approaches to establishing cultural meaning that were prevalent after the war. In arguing the 'truth' and 'method' acted in opposition to each other, Gadamer examined the w…
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- Full title :Truth and method / Hans-Georg Gadamer.
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Truth and Method is a landmark work of 20th century thought which established Hans Georg-Gadamer as one of the most important philosophical voices of the 20th Century. In this book, Gadamer established the field of 'philosophical hermeneutics': exploring the nature of knowledge, the book rejected traditional quasi-scientific approaches to establishing cultural meaning that were prevalent after the war. In arguing the 'truth' and 'method' acted in opposition to each other, Gadamer examined the ways in which historical and cultural circumstance fundamentally influenced human understanding. It wa.
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- Publication Date:1998.
- Edition:2nd rev. ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Continuum
- Place of Publication:New York
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:1998.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:1780936001, 9781780936000
- oclc:ocn902682696
- LC Classification:BD241 .G313 2013
- Dewey Decimal:121
Table of Contents
Title Page; Copyright page; Contents; Translator's Preface; Introduction; Foreword to the Second Edition; Notes; Part I The Question of Truth as it Emerges in the Experience of Art; Chapter 1 Transcending the Aesthetic Dimension; The significance of the humanist tradition for the human sciences; The subjectivization of aesthetics through the Kantian critique; Retrieving the question of artistic truth; Notes; Chapter 2 The Ontology of the Work of Art and its Hermeneutic Significance; Play as the clue to ontological explanation; Aesthetic and hermeneutic consequences; Notes.
Part II The Extension of the Question of Truth to Understanding in the Human SciencesChapter 3 Historical Preparation; The questionableness of romantic hermeneutics and its application to the study of history; Dilthey's entanglement in the aporias of historicism81; Overcoming the epistemological problem through phenomenological research; Notes; Chapter 4 Elements of a Theory of Hermeneutic Experience; The elevation of the historicity of understanding to the status of a hermeneutic principle; The recovery of the fundamental hermeneutic problem; Analysis of historically effected consciousness.
NotesPart III The …
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