Table Of Content

Title Page Page: iv Copyright page Page: v Contents Page: viii Translator's Preface Page: xi Introduction Page: xxi Foreword to the Second Edition Page: xxvi Notes Page: xxxvi Part I The Question of Truth as it Emerges in the Experience of Art Page: 1 Chapter 1 Transcending the Aesthetic Dimension Page: 3 The significance of the humanist tradition for the human sciences Page: 3 The subjectivization of aesthetics through the Kantian critique Page: 39 Retrieving the question of artistic truth Page: 74 Notes Page: 91 Chapter 2 The Ontology of the Work of Art and its Hermeneutic Significance Page: 106 Play as the clue to ontological explanation Page: 106 Aesthetic and hermeneutic consequences Page: 135 Notes Page: 168 Part II The Extension of the Question of Truth to Understanding in the Human Sciences Page: 179 Chapter 3 Historical Preparation Page: 181 The questionableness of romantic hermeneutics and its application to the study of history Page: 181 Dilthey’s entanglement in the aporias of historicism81 Page: 222 Overcoming the epistemological problem through phenomenological research Page: 244 Notes Page: 264 Chapter 4 Elements of a Theory of Hermeneutic Experience Page: 278 The elevation of the historicity of understanding to the status of a hermeneutic principle Page: 278 The recovery of the fundamental hermeneutic problem Page: 318 Analysis of historically effected consciousness Page: 350 Notes Page: 387 Part III The Ontological Shift of Hermeneutics Guided by Language Page: 399 Chapter 5 Language and Hermeneutics Page: 401 Language as the medium of hermeneutic experience Page: 401 The development of the concept of language in the history of Western thought Page: 423 Language as horizon of a hermeneutic ontology Page: 455 Notes Page: 506 Appendices Page: 515 Appendix I (to p.34) Page: 515 Appendix II (to p.141) Page: 519 Appendix III (to p.253) Page: 521 Appendix IV (to p.268) Page: 522 Appendix V (to p.421) Page: 523 Appendix VI—On the concept of expression (to pp.330 and 462) Page: 524 Notes Page: 526 Supplement I: Hermeneutics and Historicism (1965) Page: 528 Notes Page: 560 Supplement II: To What Extent Does Language Preform Thought? Page: 568 Notes Page: 575 Afterword Page: 576 Notes Page: 603 Subject Index Page: 607 Author Index Page: 617

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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 was an approach that would become hugely influential in the humanities and social sciences and remains so to this day in the work of Jurgen Habermas and many others.