Hermeneutics and historical consciousness: An appraisal of the contribution of Hans-Georg Gadamer
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Ab stract In this in tro duc tory ar ti cle to the vol ume of the South Af ri can Jour nal of Phi loso phy in trib ute of HansGeorg Gada mer, the author, first, makes a few re marks about the na ture of her me neu tics and Gadamer's views on the uni ver sal ity of the her me neu ti cal ex pe ri ence. This uni ver sal ity is, in par ticu lar, ex plained from the per spec tive of the “lin guis tic turn” in Gadamer's thought. Sec ondly, there is a brief dis cus sion of cer tain par ticu lar as pects of Gadamer's con tri bu tion. As pects of that con tri bu tion that are em pha sized are: Gadamer's reevaluation of preju dice, author ity and tra di tion, his idea of “Wirkungs geschichte”, his idea of mean ing as a pro cess rather than a given en tity, his ana logy be tween gameplaying and the in ter pre ta tion of art, and his dia logi cal con cep tion of in ter pre ta tion. The author con cludes by de vel op ing his own es ti mate of the main thrust of Gadamer's con tri bu tion. This con tri bu tion con sists of the way in which Gadamer's thought, on the one hand, rep re sents a dem on stra tion and em bodi ment of the kind of his tori cal con scious ness so typi cal of our times, but, on the other hand, also ac com plishes this ex em pli fi ca tion of his tori cal con scious ness while imagi na tively avoid ing the kind of rela tiv is tic his tori cism so typi cal of many other mani fes ta tions of the same trend.
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