Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Gadamer
- Other Volumes in the Series of Cambridge Companions
- The Cambridge Companion to Gadamer
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Gadamer (1900–2002)
- 2 Gadamer’s Basic Understanding of Understanding
- 3 Getting It Right
- 4 Philosophical Hermeneutics, Language, and the Communicative Event
- 5 Phronesis and Solidarity
- 6 Gadamer’s Herderian Critics
- 7 Gadamer on the Human Sciences
- 8 Art Experience and Its Transformative Potential in Gadamer’s Hermeneutics
- 9 Lyric as Paradigm
- 10 Gadamer, the Hermeneutic Revolution, and Theology
- 11 Hermeneutics in Practice
- 12 Gadamer’s Hegel
- 13 Gadamer’s Relation to Heidegger and to Phenomenology
- 14 The Constellation of Hermeneutics, Critical Theory, and Deconstruction
- 15 Hermeneutics in a Broader Horizon
- Bibliography
- Index
- Other Volumes in the Series of Cambridge Companions (continued from page ii)
2 - Gadamer’s Basic Understanding of Understanding
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Gadamer
- Other Volumes in the Series of Cambridge Companions
- The Cambridge Companion to Gadamer
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Gadamer (1900–2002)
- 2 Gadamer’s Basic Understanding of Understanding
- 3 Getting It Right
- 4 Philosophical Hermeneutics, Language, and the Communicative Event
- 5 Phronesis and Solidarity
- 6 Gadamer’s Herderian Critics
- 7 Gadamer on the Human Sciences
- 8 Art Experience and Its Transformative Potential in Gadamer’s Hermeneutics
- 9 Lyric as Paradigm
- 10 Gadamer, the Hermeneutic Revolution, and Theology
- 11 Hermeneutics in Practice
- 12 Gadamer’s Hegel
- 13 Gadamer’s Relation to Heidegger and to Phenomenology
- 14 The Constellation of Hermeneutics, Critical Theory, and Deconstruction
- 15 Hermeneutics in a Broader Horizon
- Bibliography
- Index
- Other Volumes in the Series of Cambridge Companions (continued from page ii)
Summary
The central concept of Truth and Method is the understanding. It provides an account of how we understand things. We understand things interpretively. This chapter discusses understanding as ߢpractical know-howߣ and as agreement. Understanding has a cognitive, a practical, and a linguistic element. Understanding is contextual and circular. The hermeneutical circle is the heart of the Gadamerߣs notion of the understanding.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Gadamer , pp. 44 - 61Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021