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9 - Lyric as Paradigm

Hegel and the Speculative Instance of Poetry in Gadamer’s Hermeneutics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2021

Robert Dostal
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Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
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This chapter concerns itself with the fulfillment, or carrying out, of the work of art according to Gadamer. The chapter takes a cue from Gadamer and uses lyric poetry as the paradigm for such fulfillment. The experience of art is a hermeneutic experience that is a linguistic phenomenon with a speculative dimension. Poetic language is representative of language use in general, as it achieves a certain ideality. This chapter argues for the positive ontological stake of poetry. The essay considers the poetry of Rilke and Mallarme in relation to Hegel’s speculative thought and relates this to Gadamer’s hermeneutics. The concepts of contemporaneity and aesthetic nondifferentiation are explicated.

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  • Lyric as Paradigm
  • Edited by Robert Dostal, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Gadamer
  • Online publication: 29 July 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108907385.010
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  • Lyric as Paradigm
  • Edited by Robert Dostal, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Gadamer
  • Online publication: 29 July 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108907385.010
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  • Lyric as Paradigm
  • Edited by Robert Dostal, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
  • Book: The Cambridge Companion to Gadamer
  • Online publication: 29 July 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108907385.010
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