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• 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…

• Auseinandersetzung

  Heidegger's technical name for the proper mode of relation to a thinker. Distinct from interpretation, criticism, and refutation, Auseinandersetzung is "die höchste und einzige Weise der wahren Schätzung eines Denkers" — the highest and on…

• 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…

• Emilio Betti

  Italian jurist, legal historian, and theorist of interpretation (1890–1968), author of the Teoria generale della interpretazione (1955) and Die Hermeneutik als allgemeine Methodik der Geisteswissenschaften (1962). In the wiki Betti is Gada…

• Europe as the Crisis of Play Frank Chouraqui, 2025

  Author(s): Frank Chouraqui (Universiteit Leiden) · Year: 2025 · Type: chapter

• Fetishistic Theory of Care (Nihilism)

  Chouraqui's redescription of nihilism (in "Europe as the Crisis of Play", 2025) as, "at heart, a fetishistic theory of care." On this reading, nihilism is not first a doctrine about value's absence but a doctrine about care's grounds: to c…

• Friedrich Schleiermacher

  German theologian and philosopher (1768–1834), the founder of modern universal hermeneutics and, in Gadamer's genealogy, the pivotal figure who deformed hermeneutics by detaching understanding from its subject-matter. In the wiki Schleierm…

• 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…

• Gary Brent Madison

  Canadian philosopher (McMaster University, Docteur en Philosophie de l'Université de Paris), author of The Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty: A Search for the Limits of Consciousness — the foundational English-language ontological reading of…

• 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…

• Johann Gustav Droysen

  German historian (1808–1884), author of the Historik (lectures on the theory of history) and the historian who named "Hellenism." In Gadamer's Ch 3 he is "the acute methodologist" who advances on Ranke yet, like him, ends in "aesthetic-her…

• Jürgen Habermas

  German philosopher and social theorist (b. 1929), the leading second-generation figure of the Frankfurt School and of the critique of ideology. In the wiki he appears as Gadamer's critical-theory interlocutor — the source of the most influ…

• 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…

• Patrick Heelan

  Philosopher of science (1926–2015) whose hermeneutic-phenomenological account of scientific interpretation supplies the diagnostic vocabulary that Heinbokel adopts for redescribing scientific medicine within Merleau-Pontian expression theo…

• Paul Celan

  Romanian-born, German-language Jewish poet (1920–1970, born Paul Antschel; took pseudonym "Celan" as an anagram of his surname). Survivor of the Shoah (his parents were murdered in concentration camps). Author of Mohn und Gedächtnis (1952,…

• Paul Ricoeur

  French philosopher (1913–2005) of phenomenology and hermeneutics. In the wiki's corpus Ricoeur figures principally as: (a) the philosopher whose 1973 dictum "the philosophical basis of the major book of 1945 [Phenomenology of Perception] h…

• Paul Yorck von Wartenburg

  German philosopher and count (1835–1897), known chiefly through his correspondence with Dilthey and his fragmentary posthumous papers. In Gadamer's Ch 3 he is the surprise hero — "the missing link between Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind and…

• 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 und Zeit Martin Heidegger, 1967

  Author(s): Martin Heidegger · Year: 1927 (this edition 1967) · Type: book (an Abhandlung first published as Sonderdruck from Husserl's Jahrbuch für Philosophie und phänomenologische Forschung, Bd. VIII)

• 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

• Wilhelm Dilthey

  German philosopher (1833–1911), Schleiermacher's biographer, and the great theorist of the "critique of historical reason" who sought to ground the human sciences (Geisteswissenschaften) in life. In Gadamer's genealogy he is the central pr…