Gadamer on Tradition - Historical Context and the Limits of Reflection

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This book discusses Gadamer's theory of context-dependence. Analytical and partly critical, the book also shows exegetical accuracy in the rendering of Gadamer's position. It explores the following questions that Gadamer's theory of context-dependence tries to answer: in what way is thought influenced by and thus dependent on its historical context? To what extent and in what way is the individual able to become reflectively aware of and emancipate himself from this dependence? The book takes Gadamer's wide interests into account, e.g. issues relating to the history of historiography and the nature of art and aesthetic experience. The problem of the context-dependence of thought is prominent in contemporary philosophy, including the fields of structuralism, post structuralism, deconstruction, certain forms of feminist philosophy and the philosophy of science. In this sense, the book discusses an issue with wide repercussions.

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9783319595566   3319866508   3319595563   9783319595580

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10.1007/978-3-319-59558-0
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Context-Dependence: Its Nature and Depth

Gadamer tends to argue that a historical context is cognitively homogeneous in an unreflected way, and that the context-dependence of presuppositions has been underestimated. By contrast, philosophers in the Enlightenment tradition argued that the influence of the historical context on the individua... see more

Being a Child of One’s Time: Gadamer and Hegel on Thought and Historical Context

This chapter compares Hegel’s and Gadamer’s accounts of context-dependence. Hegel asserts that the individual is a “child of his time.” However, Hegel describes the relationship between thought and the historical context in different ways, and this chapter singles out four versions of the claim that... see more

Forms of Reflection

This chapter considers the rather frequent objection to Gadamer, made by Jürgen Habermas, among others, that a theory of the unreflective nature of context-dependence of the kind proposed by Gadamer reduces the very lack of reflection that it asserts. Gadamer argues that context-dependence and the p... see more

Conclusion

Gadamer asserts, in a passage that I have already quoted, that contextually induced presuppositions “occupy the interpreter’s consciousness” and that they are not at “free disposal.” This claim might be understood as saying that these presuppositions cannot be discarded. If this interpretation is co... see more

History as Conversation Versus History as Science: Gadamer and Dilthey

This chapter examines Gadamer’s view that Dilthey’s approach to historical study and, more generally, the approach of historicism, does not permit a “genuine conversation” with the claims of the past. A genuine conversation is, Gadamer holds, such that its “subject matter” is stressed. Although trus... see more

Art, History, and the Decline of Tradition

Gadamer argues, in a prescriptive way, that the rise of the historical sciences coincided with a regrettable decline in the authority of the Western philosophical, religious, and aesthetic traditions. But Gadamer also argues, in a more descriptive way, that the history of Western culture since Greek... see more

Gadamer and Hegel on Bildung

Introduction

Gadamer often asserts that his account of the “the human sciences” in general and the historical sciences in particular is descriptive and not prescriptive. One cannot, Gadamer thus holds, prescribe a method to these sciences which would permit their historically situated and context-dependent chara... see more

Gadamer and Hegel on Bildung

This chapter examines Gadamer’s and Hegel’s theory of Bildung . According to Hegel, Bildung occurs in two main forms. Initially, the child is subject to elementary education, which aims to integrate it into the cultural milieu. However, later in life this Bildung may become subject to questioning an... see more

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