Gadamer on Tradition - Historical Context and the Limits of Reflection
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Beschreibung
This book discusses Gadamer's theory of context-dependence. Analytical and partly critical, the book also shows exegetical accuracy in the rendering of Gadamer's position. It explores the following questions that Gadamer's theory of context-dependence tries to answer: in what way is thought influenced by and thus dependent on its historical context? To what extent and in what way is the individual able to become reflectively aware of and emancipate himself from this dependence? The book takes Gadamer's wide interests into account, e.g. issues relating to the history of historiography and the nature of art and aesthetic experience. The problem of the context-dependence of thought is prominent in contemporary philosophy, including the fields of structuralism, post structuralism, deconstruction, certain forms of feminist philosophy and the philosophy of science. In this sense, the book discusses an issue with wide repercussions.
This book discusses Gadamer's theory of context-dependence. Analytical and partly critical, the book also shows exegetical accuracy in the rendering of Gadamer's position. It explores the following questions that Gadamer's theory of context-dependence tries to answer: in what way is thought influenced by and thus dependent on its historical context? To what extent and in what way is the individual able to become reflectively aware of and emancipate himself from this dependence? The book takes Gadamer's wide interests into account, e.g. issues relating to the history of historiography and the nature of art and aesthetic experience. The problem of the context-dependence of thought is prominent in contemporary philosophy, including the fields of structuralism, post structuralism, deconstruction, certain forms of feminist philosophy and the philosophy of science. In this sense, the book discusses an issue with wide repercussions.
Is the first book-length study of Gadamer s theory of context-dependence Is interpretative, analytical and critical, rather than descriptive and synthesizing in character Is relevant to philosophers, theologians, historians and art historians Addresses an issue that has repercussions for many branches of contemporary philosophy
Autor*in
Anders Odenstedt
Themen in »Gadamer on Tradition - Historical Context and the Limits of Reflection«
Context-dependence, reflection, emancipation Dilthey, Wilhelm Gadamer, Hans-Georg Geisteswissenschaften Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hermeneutical experience Historical consciousness and self-awareness Historical context as tradition Historiography, historical science, objectivity Presuppositions of thought