gadamer’s ambivalence toward the enlightenment project
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this essay explores gadamer’s ambivalent relationship with modernity. gadamer is a prominent critic of the enlightenment project. his criticisms are both theoretical and practical. theoretically, representationalism is at the center of modern epistemology for gadamer. practically, gadamer sees the demotion of prudence (phronesis) as fundamental to the “bad” enlightenment. gadamer’s attempt to revive an appreciation of rhetoric is a way to the join the theoretical and practical dimensions of speech and life. the central representative philosopher of the enlightenment for gadamer is kant. the antithetical thinker is aristotle. gadamer would have his kant and his aristotle too. the tension between these is at the heart of gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics.
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مجله پژوهشهای فلسفی دانشگاه تبریزPublisher: دانشگاه تبریز
ISSN 2251-7960
volume 6
issue 11 2012
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