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• Effective History (Wirkungsgeschichte)

  Effective history (Wirkungsgeschichte, "history of effect") is Gadamer's name for the way history is already at work in all understanding, prior to and beneath any reflective awareness of it: "the power of effective history does not depend…

• Hermeneutic Experience (Erfahrung)

  Gadamer argues that historically effected consciousness "has the structure of experience (Erfahrung)" — and that genuine experience is dialectical, negative, and finite. "Every experience worthy of the name thwarts an expectation"; experie…

• Limit / Edge / Shore (Nancy)

  The closing analytic triad in Fragile Skin Ch VIII ("Taking on Board"), Nancy's master late-apparatus for thinking singular finitude in the closure of the West: limit (limite), edge (bord), shore (rive). Each names a distinct register of t…

• Linguisticality (Sprachlichkeit)

  In Part Three of Truth and Method, Gadamer makes the ontological turn to language: understanding is linguistic through and through (Sprachlichkeit). Language is "the medium of hermeneutic experience" — not a neutral instrument carrying pre…

• Prejudice (Vorurteil)

  Gadamer's rehabilitation of prejudice is the most counterintuitive move of Truth and Method. A prejudice (Vorurteil, praejudicium) is, etymologically, a fore-judgment — "a judgment that is rendered before all the elements that determine a…

• Sein zum Tode (Being-toward-Death)

  Heidegger's name for Dasein's existential-ontological relation to its own end — not a future event but a structural possibility that pervades Dasein's being as long as it exists. "Der Tod als Ende des Daseins ist die eigenste, unbezügliche…