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Gadamer  Wordtrade.com German Thought Review Essays of Academic, Professional & Technical Books in the Humanities & Sciences WT Main About WT Review Links Contact Review Sources Bookstore Critical Theory Bookstore Search See HermeneuticsGadamerIn Conversation: Reflections and Commentary by ,edited, introduction and translated by Richard E. Palmer contributions by GlennW. Most and Drte Von Westernhagen(Yale University Press) presents six lively conversations with Hans-GeorgGadamer (born 1900), one of the twentieth century's master philosophers. Lookingback over his life and thought, Gadamer takes up key issues in his philosophy,addresses points of controversy, and replies to his critics, including those whoaccuse him of having been in complicity with the Nazis. A genial and directconversationalist, Gadamer is here captured at his best and most accessible. Theinterviews took place between 1989 and 1996, and all but one appear in Englishfor the first time in this volume. The first three conversations, conducted byHeidelberg philosopher Carsten Dutt, deal with hermeneutics, aesthetics, andpractical philosophy and the question of ethics. In a fourth conversation, withUniversity of Heidelberg classics professor Glenn W. Most, Gadamer argues forthe vital importance of the Greeks for our contemporary thinking. In the next,the philosopher reaffirms his connection with phenomenology and clarifies hisrelation to Husserl and Heidegger in a conversation with London philosopherAlfons Grieder. In the final interview, with German Nazi expert Drte vonWesternhagen, Gadamer describes his life as a struggling young professor inGermany in the 1930s and refutes accusations of his complicity with the Nazis.These conversations are a lucid introduction for readers new to thephilosopher's thought, and for experts they present an invaluable commentary onGadamer's most important themes.Thevolume should provide a useful introduction to his work and philosophical pointof view for a general readership while it clarifies his historic and personalrelationship to major events in the 20th century.HERMENEUTICS AND THE VOICE OF THE OTHER: Re-reading Gadamer’s PhilosophicalHermeneutics by James Risser (SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy (SUNY) hardcoverDealing extensively with Gadamer’slater writings, HERMENEUTICS AND THE VOICE OF THE OTHER, showsneglected and widely misunderstood dimensions of Gadamer’shermeneutics: historicity, finitude, truth, the importance of theother, and the eminence of the poetic text. The work ofHans-Georg Gadamer, brought to prominence in 1960 with theappearance of Truth and Method and now synonymous with the namephilosophical hermeneutics, by now would appear to need littleintroduction. In the years since the publication of his majorwork not only have numerous critical and expository accounts ofthis work appeared, but Gadamer himself has continued to givelectures and to write, providing us with an expansion and afurther interpretive perspective of his work. Because of thisexpansion and of some of the accounts of philosophicalhermeneutics that have been given, accounts that read Gadamer interms of a narrowly defined project, there is a need for furtherexposition and appraisal of Gadamer’s hermeneutics. Thepresent study proposes to take up such a task."In this text, Risser has heardGadamer’s own voice. Here is a study of Gadamer that presenthim as neither a proto-pragmatist, nor a Heideggerian epigone,nor as a halfhearted ‘postmodern’ but as an independentthinker with a position of his own. Risser makes it admirablyclear that although Gadamer has his roots in many of the samesources as those philosophers and philosophical positions withwhich his work is often confused, he nevertheless points topossibilities of interpretation of these sources that presentchallenging alternatives to the reigning orthodoxies. This is awork that anyone who wishes to avoid caricaturing Gadamer shouldread." —Brice Wachterhauser, St. Joseph’sUniversity"At last, here is a well balancedbook sympathetic to Gadamer’s philosophical Hermeneuticsthat deals extensively with his later writings. It carefullyelucidates and clarifies key concepts in Gadamer’sphilosophical hermeneutics, beginning with the often neglectedelements of finitude and facticity in Gadamer and their roots inHeidegger and culminating with a chapter on ‘The Voice ofthe Poet,’ again returning to an emphasis found in the laterHeidegger. A particularly valuable dimension of the book isRisser’s effort in each chapter to specify how his readingof Gadamer differs from those offered by various critics who havereproached Hermeneutics on various grounds." —RichardE. Palmer, MacMurray CollegeExcerpt: Even if one wanted todisregard the importance of his other writings in determining theproject of a philosophical hermeneutics and to state that projectsolely on the basis of a reading of Truth and Method, thecomplexity still remains. We now know on the basis of acomparison with the original draft of Truth and Method, amanuscript of approximately one hundred pages, that Gadamer madesignificant changes along the way to the publication of the textof 1960.2 Looking carefully at the development of the themesthrough the various sections in the text of 1960, one can detect,for example, that the section "The Rediscovery of theFundamental Hermeneutical Problem" was added to the originaltext. The beginning of the section which immediately follows,"The Analysis of Effective Historical Consciousness,"not only fits better thematically with the section preceding"The Rediscovery of the Fundamental HermeneuticalProblem," but actually refers back to this preceding sectionas if the reader had just turned from it. We also know that inits original form the first part on aesthetics was not included.Undoubtedly, the transformation of the text from the originaldraft to the version published in 1960 clearly reflects the longgestation period of approximately ten years that it took Gadamerto produce "Truth and Method." During this period oftime in which Gadamer taught at theUniversity of Leipzig and beganhis long career at the University of Heidelberg, Gadamer wasoccupied mainly with teaching duties that focused to a largeextent on the work of German Idealism. These duties includedgiving seminars on Kant’s aesthetics and may account for thefact that the first part of Truth and Method on the question oftruth in art was added to the original draft and why his longpreoccupation with Greek philosophy is underplayed in the finalversion of the text. But the addition of part one of Truth andMethod is only part of the complexity. The relation of part 3 topart 2 is no less significant for the determination of theproject. Clearly, in the published text of 1960 the themes inpart 1 and part 2 all point to part 3, and the questionsannounced at the outset of the book that guide the development ofthe themes are answered in part 3. Nevertheless, part 3("The Ontological Shift of Hermeneutics Guided byLanguage") represents something of a break in comparisonwith part 2 ("The Extension of the Question of Truth toUnderstanding in the Human Sciences").Amidst all this complexity, itis nonetheless possible to identify in a decisive mannerprecisely what Gadamer’s project is about. To state thematter simply and in the broadest terms, the concern of aphilosophical hermeneutics is with the problematic ofunderstanding. This problematic is presented in Truth and Methodin terms of a shift from a methodological hermeneutics to aphilosophical hermeneutics, a shift from understanding as amethodology of the human sciences to the universality ofunderstanding and interpretation. The claim to universalityspeaks primarily to the scope rather than the conditions ofunderstanding. That is to say, the claim to universality is notabout an unconditional validity relative to Gadamer’s"theory" of understanding, for in fact the actualcondition for understanding that Gadamer posits (viz., thehistoricity of understanding) runs counter to any claim touniversality. In a philosophical hermeneutics the scope ofunderstanding is broadened by virtue of its ontologicaldetermination; that is, following Heidegger’s analysis inBeing and Time, understanding is a determination of humanexistence that is prior to a functioning in methodologicalresearch. This "hermeneutics of Existenz" is whatallows Gadamer to posit a claim to universality. Forphilosophical hermeneutics, Understanding takes place in allaspects of experiencing: "the way we experience one another,the way we experience historical traditions, the way weexperience the natural givenness of our existence and of ourworld, constitute a truly hermeneutic universe, in which we arenot imprisoned, as if behind insurmountable barriers, but towhich we are opened".Philosophical hermeneutics is aboutunderstanding. In working through the various dimensions in whichthe experience of understanding is articulated andlegitimated—here at the end in poetry and art, but also inhistorical experience and in the experience of philosophy—weare invited to see that for Gadamer philosophical hermeneutics isactually more than a theory of understanding. We have seen howphilosophical hermeneutics carries with it a certaindetermination of philosophy itself, on its operation (as a formof praxis) and intention (the hermeneutical awakening ofexistence to itself). In this reading of Gadamer’shermeneutics, of his hermeneutic philosophy, the authoremphasizes and whenever appropriate to come back to theimportance of the roots of Gadamer’s thinking in thedevelopments of the 1920s where philosophy in effect returns tothe experience of life as a way of underscoring thisdetermination of philosophy. In Heidegger’s hands thisreturn to the experience of life is presented as a hermeneuticsof facticity, and Gadamer readily acknowledges the enormousshadow that Heidegger casts over his own work. But at the sametime, this experience of philosophy is one that Gadamer hasalways found in Plato. In the search for a "last word"here, we need to be reminded once again of these roots ofGadamer’s thinking.It is from these roots that philosophybecomes for Gadamer practical philosophy. In Gadamer’sdistinctive shaping of this attribute, this means that philosophyfollows the way of experience itself. But it also means that whatphilosophy achieves for itself is not unlike what is achieved inpractical knowledge. Such knowledge is of course fundamentallyinterpretive, but equally important is the fact that suchknowledge has to do with a certain building, formation (Bildung).What this means for Gadamer can best be seen in theinterpretation of a statement that Socrates makes in the Phaedo.When called upon by Cebes to explain why, having never writtenverse before, he now composes verse, Socrates says that he wastold in a dream to make music. In his own interpretation of thiscommand Socrates says that "it was urging and encouraging meto do what I was doing already . . . that is to make music,because philosophy was the greatest kind of music." In his1921/22 lecture course on Aristotle, Heidegger interprets thischaracterization of philosophical activity: a rhythmic‘shaping’ [Bilden], holding itself to an inner orderingand enacting itself to it. Title for education.… Philosophyis a how of conducting oneself. On this interpretation one cansay that philosophical hermeneutics thinks highly of a Socrateswho practices music. Philosophical hermeneutics is accordingly anattempt to legitimate and to engage in this task of building, ofmusic-making, for which there is no roves.When Gadamer turns to a consideration ofthe nature of poetry and to an analysis of poetical texts, wemust read these efforts in the spirit of this image of Socrates.Commenting on the fact that he is concerned with Philosophy andpoetry, Gadamer himself says that "these reflections haveServed to remind me, and might remind us all, that Plato was noPlatonist and philosophy is not scholasticism" .Hopefully itis now clear what this means. To understand philosophy in thisway, we should then be careful about making too much of the"metaphysics of proximity" that Gadamer seeminglypresents in the experience of philosophy, in the dynamics ofbringing the word to speak again. As a hermeneutics of finitude,the task of philosophy is always posed in relation to the insightthat all things escape us. What is in the hold in the "holdupon nearness" always threatens to escape our grasp. ForGadamer, poetic experience as an event of language isself-bestowal and self-withdrawal. And more importantly, in theself bestowal in poetry I am exposed not to a comfort of home assuch, but to that other in/of language, that other that inself-bestowal temporarily halts the fleeting escape of allthings.Philosophical hermeneutics does indeedfollow the way of experience itself, but lest we forget,experience is the encounter with something that asserts its owntruth. It is for this reason that I have placed philosophicalhermeneutics within the horizon of what I have called the voiceof the other. Understanding comes not from the subject whothinks, but from the other that addresses me. This other that isa speaking person in every dialogical encounter is also the otherin the address of language, the other that speaks when"language becomes voice." It is this voice that awakensone to vigilance, to being questioned in the conversation that weare.LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY IN DIALOGUE: Essays in German Literary Theory by Hans-George Gadamer, translated by Robert H. Paslick (Series in Contemporary ContinentalPhilosophy: SUNY) Gadamer's work has been at the cuttingedge of late phenomenologically informed philosophicalhermeneutics for a number of years. His relevance and richlyevocative writings on the philosophical interpretation of histeacher Heidegger are almost canonical. So this selection of hisessays on the enterprise of Heidegger will be a welcome additionto anyone struggling with the Black Forest gnome. Gadamer triesto get at the essential feature of Heidegger's thought. As suchit is a feat of hermeneutical prestidigitation which shouldprovoke as much controversy as the master himself, or it could beseen as the normalization of the essential creativity ofHeidegger's thought. The essays collected in Literature andPhilosophy in dialogue are a showcase of Gadamer at hishermeneutical best. It is a vibrant volume which offersintriguing interpretations of such German authors as Goethe,Holderlin, and Rilke.DIALOGUE & DECONSTRUCTION: The Gadamer Derrida Encounter edited by Diane P. Michelfelder, Richard E. Palmer (Series in Contemporary ContinentalPhilosophy: SUNY) The much ballyhooed encounter between twosuch philosophical giants as Gadamer and Derrida promised muchbut delivered only ossification. Generally Derrida would not playso the German philosopher was left talking to an unresponsivevoice. The controversy that ensued in the journals is wellcaptured in this reprint and translation of the original event aswell as a host of interpretations by American academicphilosophers as to what it might mean about the nature ofphilosophical inquiry. Dialogue and deconstruction will be apopular book with philosophers for some time to come.Gadamer on Celan:'Who Am I and Who Are You?' and Other Essays by Hans Georg Gadamer,Richard Heinemann, Bruce Krajewski. (SUNY Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy) Published by State Universityof New York Press. Word Trade is an independent review agency serving thepublic, scholars, libraries, and booksellers.Send mail to webmaster@wordtrade.com with questionsor comments about this web site.  Headline 3 insert content here WT Main | About WT | Review Links | Contact | Review Sources | Bookstore | Critical Theory Bookstore | Search Copyright © 2007. All Rights Reserved. |
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