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• Aesthetic Consciousness

  Aesthetic consciousness (ästhetisches Bewußtsein) is Gadamer's diagnostic name, in Part One of Truth and Method, for the modern stance — founded by Schiller's "standpoint of art" — that makes the experiencing subject "the experiencing cent…

• Application (Anwendung)

  For Gadamer, application (Anwendung) is not a step that follows understanding but a moment intrinsic to it: "application does not mean first understanding a given universal in itself and then afterward applying it to a concrete case. It is…

• 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…

• Fusion of Horizons (Horizontverschmelzung)

  The fusion of horizons (Horizontverschmelzung) is Gadamer's name for what happens in understanding: the apparent horizon of the present and the apparent horizon of the past (the text, the tradition) are not two self-standing standpoints to…

• Hans-Georg Gadamer

  German philosopher (1900–2002), student of Heidegger (and of the Marburg neo-Kantians), and the founder of philosophical hermeneutics. His magnum opus Truth and Method (Wahrheit und Methode, 1960) reframed hermeneutics from a methodology o…

• 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…

• Hermeneutics (Philosophical)

  Hermeneutics is the theory of understanding and interpretation. In Gadamer's Truth and Method it is decisively transformed: from an art or technique of correct interpretation (the older theological, legal, and philological hermeneutics; Sc…

• 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…

• Play (Spiel)

  Play (Spiel) is Gadamer's "clue to ontological explanation" in Part One of Truth and Method: the concept through which he determines the mode of being of the work of art. Stripped of the subjective meaning it carries in Kant and Schiller (…

• 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…

• Tradition (Gadamer)

  For Gadamer, tradition (Überlieferung) is not the inert, given antithesis of reason but a living mode of preservation (Bewahrung) that is itself "an act of reason, though an inconspicuous one." We do not stand outside tradition and choose…

• Truth and Method Hans-Georg Gadamer, 1989

  Author(s): Hans-Georg Gadamer · Year: 1960 (German; English trans. rev. Weinsheimer & Marshall) · Type: book