Abstract

This dissertation presents and discusses the strategy developed by Gadamer in Truth and Method to disrupt the circumscription of truth to the statement. It studies Gadamer's strategy to shove that truth is not restricted to the agency of reason, but rather that the agency of reason is derivative and dependent on the agency of language. The dissertation first traces the relationship of truth to reason and language from Homer, through Parmenides, Plato and Aristotle; then, it discusses the radicalization of this relationship carried out by Modernity. After the preceding has been laid out, it dedicates a chapter to explore the strategy developed by Heidegger to deal with this issue. The remainder of the dissertation is dedicated to a hermeneutics of Truth and Method in order to lay bare its strategy to disrupt the circumscription of truth to the agency of reason, and show its dependency on the agency of language