Gadamer and Wittgenstein on the Unity of Language: Reality and Discourse without Metaphysics

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Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1 Prejudices as Conditions of Understanding
	Practical Difficulties with Gadamer's Use of 'Prejudice'
	The Source of Gadamer's Peculiar Use of 'Prejudice'
	A Technical Understanding of 'Prejudice'
	Understanding as a Process
2 Historicity: Limit or Limitation?
	'Universal History' as a Task
	The Unity of History as an 'Experience'
	The Epistemological Problem of Historicity
	'Overcoming' the Epistemological Problem
3 Universal Hermeneutics
	Gadamer's Path to Language
	Gadamer's Theory of the Unity of Language
	Theory and Phronesis
	An Assessment of Gadamer's Theory
		Human Experience as Openness
		The World-in-Itself
		The Game Analogy
4 Wittgenstein's Tractatus and the Unity of a Calculus
	The Sense of the Tractatus
	The Problem of Posing Philosophical Problems
	Language as a Calculus
	Difficulties with the Unity of a Calculus
5 Rush Rhees and the Unity of a Life
	Wittgenstein's Language Game Analogy
	The Contrast Between Gadamer and Rhees
	Language and Life
Bibliography
Index