The Cambridge Companion to GadamerRobert J. Dostal Gadamer: the man and his work / Robert J. Dostal -- Gadamer's basic understanding of understanding / Jean Grondin -- Getting it right: relativism, realism, and truth / Brice Wachterhauser -- Hermeneutics, ethics, and politics / Georgia Warnke -- The doing of the thing itself: Gadamer's Hermeneutic ontology of language / Günter Figal -- Gadamer on the human sciences / Charles Taylor -- Lyric as paradigm: Hegel and the speculative instance of poetry in Gadamer's Hermeneutics / J.M. Baker -- Gadamer, the Hermeneutic revolution, and theology / Fred Lawrence -- Hermeneutics in practice: Gadamer on ancient philosophy / Catherine H. Zuckert -- Gadamer's Hegel / Robert B. Pippin -- Gadamer's relation to Heidegger and phenomenology / Robert J. Dostal -- The constellation of Hermeneutics, critical theory, and deconstruction / Richard J. Bernstein. |
Contents
Gadamer The Man and His Work | 13 |
Gadamers Basic Understanding of Understanding | 36 |
Getting it Right Relativism Realism and Truth | 52 |
Hermeneutics Ethics and Politics | 79 |
The Doing of the Thing Itself Gadamers Hermeneutic Ontology of Language | 102 |
Gadamer on the Human Sciences | 126 |
Lyric as Paradigm Hegel and the Speculative Instance of Poetry in Gadamers Hermeneutics | 143 |
Gadamer the Hermeneutic Revolution and Theology | 167 |
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Page 7 - What I as a physicist had to discover for myself, most historians learn by example in the course of professional training. Consciously or not, they are all practitioners of the hermeneutic method. In my case, however, the discovery of hermeneutics did more than make history seem consequential. Its most immediate and decisive effect was instead on my view of science