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- 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)
11 - Hermeneutics in Practice
Gadamer on Ancient Philosophy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 July 2021
- 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
This chapter describes Gadamer’s initial understanding of the nature and significance of Platonic philosophy in terms of dialogue and dialectic. It then provides a brief account of Gadamer’s own interpretive method as presented in Truth and Method. The chapter then shows how Gadamer changed his understanding of Plato, particularly in relation to Aristotle. The chapter shows how this new understanding of Plato provides the ontological foundation for Gadamer’s own “hermeneutics.” Finally, we see how Gadamer’s readings of ancient philosophers constitute a fundamental challenge and correction to the mode of interpretation still dominant in Anglo-American philosophy.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Gadamer , pp. 282 - 308Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021