The Gadamer Reader: A Bouquet of the Later Writings

Contents......Page 6
Preface......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Autobiographical Reflections......Page 16
Part 1. Defining the Idea of a Philosophical Hermeneutics......Page 52
Classical and Philosophical Hermeneutics......Page 54
The Universality of the Hermeneutical Problem......Page 85
Language and Understanding......Page 102
From Word to Concept: The Task of Hermeneutics as Philosophy......Page 121
Part 2. Hermeneutics, Art, and Poetry......Page 134
Aesthetics and Hermeneutics......Page 136
On the Truth of the Word......Page 145
Text and Interpretation......Page 169
The Artwork in Word and Image: “So True, So Full of Being!”......Page 205
Part 3. Hermeneutics and Practical Philosophy......Page 238
Hermeneutics as Practical Philosophy......Page 240
Hermeneutics as a Theoretical and Practical Task......Page 259
Greek Philosophy and Modern Thinking......Page 279
On the Possibility of a Philosophical Ethics......Page 287
Part 4. Gadamer on Plato, Hegel, Heidegger, and Derrida......Page 304
Plato as Portraitist......Page 306
The Heritage of Hegel......Page 335
Heidegger and the Language of Metaphysics......Page 358
Hermeneutics and the Ontological Difference......Page 369
Hermeneutics Tracking the Trace [On Derrida]......Page 385
Part 5. Concluding Dialogue with Jean Grondin......Page 420
A Look Back over the Collected Works and Their Effective History......Page 422
List of Abbreviations......Page 442
Notes......Page 446
Index of Persons......Page 478
Index of Subject Matter......Page 482