Gadamer and the Legacy of German Idealism

Cover......Page 1
Half-title......Page 3
Gadamer and the legacy of german idealism......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Dediction......Page 9
Contents......Page 11
Preface......Page 13
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Abbreviations......Page 16
Introduction......Page 21
1 Art, Dialogue, and Historical Knowledge: Appropriating Kant's Critique of Judgment......Page 29
Taste and knowledge in the third Critique......Page 32
Art and morality......Page 38
The self-encounter of spirit in the work of art......Page 43
Art and hermeneutic reason......Page 46
Dialogue and the self-encounter of reason in the work of art......Page 52
Gadamer, Heidegger, and the aesthetic tradition......Page 53
Natural and artistic beauty......Page 56
The immediacy of natural beauty......Page 59
Returning to Hegel......Page 61
Nature and knowledge in the third Critique......Page 63
2 Beyond the Third Critique: Epistemological Skepticism and Aesthetic Consciousness......Page 68
Aesthetic consciousness and the romantic misunderstanding of Kant's Critique......Page 70
Misreading Kant and Fichte: subjectivity and aesthetic genius......Page 74
Romanticism regained......Page 78
Subjectivism and the problem of aesthetic autonomy......Page 80
Immediacy and the myth of the aesthetically given......Page 85
Overcoming the myth of the aesthetically given......Page 90
Romanticism and modernity......Page 96
3 Overcoming the Problems of Modern Philosophy: Art, Truth, and the Turn to Ontology......Page 101
Leaving behind aesthetic autonomy......Page 103
Truth and beauty......Page 107
Transcending the Cartesian framework of modern philosophy......Page 111
Language, truth, and art......Page 114
Essentialism and historicity......Page 116
Beyond subjectivism: play and ecstatic self-forgetfulness......Page 124
Overcoming aesthetic consciousness?......Page 129
Hegel, Heidegger, and the problems of subjectivism and immediacy......Page 133
4 History, Reflection, and Self-Determination: Critiquing the Enlightenment and Hegel......Page 139
Prejudice against prejudice......Page 141
Situatedness and normativity......Page 147
Hegel and the historicity of reason......Page 152
Dialogue and dialectics......Page 155
Dilthey and nineteenth-century Hegelian hermeneutics......Page 161
Hegel's philosophy of history......Page 163
Epistemic and existential commitments in hermeneutics......Page 167
5 Schleiermacher's Critical Theory of Interpretation......Page 175
The universality-claim of nineteenth-century hermeneutics......Page 177
Individuality and feeling in interpretation......Page 180
The question of hermeneutic method......Page 183
Individuality reassessed......Page 185
Method reassessed......Page 188
Gadamer's modified position......Page 192
Aesthetic and political humanism......Page 195
Hermeneutics and the challenge of political humanism......Page 200
6 Normativity, Critique, and Reflection: The Hermeneutic Legacy of German Idealism......Page 205
Hermeneutics and aesthetics......Page 207
Method, prejudice, and historicity......Page 215
Translation and the expansion of horizons......Page 220
Bildung, sociability, and the progress of reason in history......Page 228
Overcoming the ontological turn in hermeneutics......Page 233
Bibliography of Works Cited......Page 239
Index......Page 251