Gadamer’s Hermeneutical Aesthetics

Gadamer’s Hermeneutical Aesthetics PDF Author: Cynthia R. Nielsen
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1000738612
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 194

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This book offers a sustained scholarly analysis of Gadamer’s reflections on art and our experience of art. It examines fundamental themes in Gadamer’s hermeneutical aesthetics such as play, festival, symbol, contemporaneity, enactment, art’s performative ontology, and hermeneutical identity. The first two chapters focus on Gadamer’s critical appropriation and movement beyond Kantian and Hegelian aesthetics. (Chapter 2 also includes a coda on Heidegger’s influence.) The final three chapters argue for the continued relevance of Gadamer’s hermeneutical aesthetics by bringing his claims into conversation with contemporary art and music, as well as the ethical and sociopolitical dimensions of the Artworld and art praxis. The ethical and sociopolitical aspects of art- and music-making are given particular attention in chapters devoted to 20th-century African American artist Romare Bearden, Banksy’s street art, and a range of jazz expressions, from traditional jazz to the complex practice of free jazz. Gadamer’s Hermeneutical Aesthetics will appeal to researchers and advanced students working on Gadamer, philosophical hermeneutics, continental philosophy, aesthetics, and the philosophy of contemporary art and music.

Philosophical Hermeneutics

Philosophical Hermeneutics PDF Author: Hans-Georg Gadamer
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520034754
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 306

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'This volume presents carefully selected essays from Gadamer's Kleine Schriften. The seven essays comprising Part 1 contain Gadamer's discussion of hermeneutical reflection. Part 2 consists of six essays dealing with phenomenology, existential philosophy, and philosophical hermeneutics.

Unfinished Worlds

Unfinished Worlds PDF Author: Nicholas Davey
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 0748686231
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 216

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Gadamer's aesthetics demonstrates that the experience of art is grounded in the objectivities of language, history and tradition. By treating words and images as transmittable placeholders for meanings and concepts, hermeneutics gives a persuasive account of how artworks communicate. Davey demonstrates how hermeneutics transforms aesthetic reflection into a poignant attentive practice that is open to the unexpected. This new "poetics" is relevant not only to the understanding of art but also to showing, explaining and defending the cognitive content of the humanities. Hermeneutic aesthetics provides a sound basis for re-thinking humanities disciplines as critical-creative practices able to re-envision the future.

The Aesthetic Hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Hans Urs Von Balthasar

The Aesthetic Hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer and Hans Urs Von Balthasar PDF Author: Jason Paul Bourgeois
Publisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9781433100697
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Through a comparison of their aesthetics and hermeneutics, this book reveals that both Gadamer and Balthasar reject an autonomous, neutral, distanced starting point for interpretation. Instead, they advocate a dialogical model in which interpreters allow themselves to be engaged by the truth of the text or artwork at hand. Both thinkers use aesthetic categories to describe this model of interpretation (such as the neo-Platonic category of radiance) and both reflect a disclosure-concealment theory of truth. In recognizing that interpreters are part of an unfolding history and that the examination of historical texts cannot be done from a neutral standpoint, they both acknowledge that textual interpretation must contain the dimension of dialogue with the past truths. Significantly, Balthasar incorporates these aesthetic and hermeneutical categories into an explicitly Trinitarian salvation-history framework, which is absent in Gadamer's thought. This book concludes with the implications of an aesthetic hermeneutics for contemporary Roman Catholic theology and its dialogue with various schools of thought (philosophical and religious), arguing that the concrete, particular forms of Christianity as expressed in Roman Catholicism cannot be bracketed or evacuated by Catholic theologians in the interest of achieving consensus in religious matters. To the contrary, it is precisely in these forms that we believe that God's revelation takes place.

Hans-Georg Gadamer, Wahrheit und Methode

Hans-Georg Gadamer, Wahrheit und Methode PDF Author: Günter Figal
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter
ISBN: 9783050041254
Category : Aesthetics
Languages : de
Pages : 256

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In seinem 1960 erschienenen Hauptwerk "Wahrheit und Methode" nimmt Gadamer die bis in die Antike zuruckreichende hermeneutische Tradition auf, um vor allem im Anschluss an Hegel und Heidegger eine philosophische Hermeneutik zu begrunden. Das Buch brachte seinem Autor internationalen Ruhm, und die philosophische Hermeneutik ist eine der massgeblichen Konzeptionen der neueren Philosophie geworden. Nach wie vor bildet "Wahrheit und Methode" den Ausgangspunkt fur eine philosophische Klarung des Verstehens und seiner von Gadamer behandelten Auspragungen in Kunst, Geschichte und Sprache. Der vorliegende Band rekonstruiert und diskutiert in Form eines kooperativen Kommentars, der Gliederung des Werkes folgend, Gadamers Gedankengang, zeigt aber auch die Perspektiven einer Philosophie auf, die sich gegenuber ihrem eigenen hermeneutischen Charakter nicht verschliesst."

Gadamer's Hermeneutical Aesthetics

Gadamer's Hermeneutical Aesthetics PDF Author: Cynthia R. Nielsen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781003181569
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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"This book offers a sustained scholarly analysis of Gadamer's reflections on art and our experience of art. It examines fundamental themes in Gadamer's hermeneutical aesthetics such as play, festival, symbol, contemporaneity, enactment, art's performative ontology, and hermeneutical identity. The first two chapters focus on Gadamer's critical appropriation and movement beyond Kantian and Hegelian aesthetics (and includes a coda on Heidegger's influence). The final three chapters argue for the continued relevance of Gadamer's hermeneutical aesthetics by bringing his claims into conversation with contemporary art and music, as well as the ethical and sociopolitical dimensions of the Artworld and art-praxis. The ethical and sociopolitical aspects of art- and music-making are given particular attention in chapters devoted to 20th century African American artist Romare Bearden, Banksy's street art, and a range of jazz expressions, from traditional jazz to the complex practice of free jazz. Gadamer's Hermeneutical Aesthetics will appeal to researchers and advanced students working on Gadamer, philosophical hermeneutics, continental philosophy, aesthetics, and the philosophy of contemporary art and music"--

Ethics, Aesthetics and the Historical Dimension of Language

Ethics, Aesthetics and the Historical Dimension of Language PDF Author: Hans-Georg Gadamer
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350278343
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 329

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Book Description
Ethics, Aesthetics and the Historical Dimension of Language collects together Gadamer's most important untranslated writings on ethics, aesthetics and language. With a substantial introduction by the editors exploring Gadamer's ethical project and providing an overview of his aesthetic work, this book collects Gadamer's writings on ancient ethics, including the moral philosophy of Aristotle, and on practical philosophy (first section). In the second section, Gadamer's writings on art are collected, including his examination of poetry, opera and painting among other art forms. The third section comprises Gadamer's essays on language in its historical dimension. This important collection is a useful resource for scholars in philosophy, studying hermeneutics, continental, 20th-century and German philosophy.

The Relevance of the Beautiful and Other Essays

The Relevance of the Beautiful and Other Essays PDF Author: Hans-Georg Gadamer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521339537
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 224

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Book Description
These essays explore Hans-Georg Gadamer's writings on art and literature in English.

Gadamer's Poetics: A Critique of Modern Aesthetics

Gadamer's Poetics: A Critique of Modern Aesthetics PDF Author: John Arthos
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441135499
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 225

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Book Description
An original account of the theory of the work of art, drawn together from the major works and occasional writings across Hans-Georg Gadamer's career.

Truth and Method

Truth and Method PDF Author: Hans-Georg Gadamer
Publisher: Burns & Oates
ISBN:
Category : PHILOSOPHY
Languages : en
Pages : 636

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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"--Provided by publisher.