Truth and Method¶
Gadamer, H. (1960/2004). Truth and Method. Continuum.
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Primes¶
- Cycle
- Economics and biology. Business, inventory, debt, and electoral cycles, and nutrient, predator–prey, circadian, and life cycles, are each a closed loop of state-change — often with a conserved quantity such as mass or energy carried around it. Hermeneutics and interpretation. The hermeneutic circle — interpreting the whole requires interpreting the parts and vice versa — is a closed dependency that is productive rather than pathological, navigated by spiralling iteration.
This sourceTranslated by Joel Weinsheimer and Donald G. Marshall. London: Continuum, 2004 [orig. 1960]. Classic articulation of the hermeneutic circle: understanding the whole requires understanding the parts and vice versa — a productive rather than pathological closed dependency.
Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract
The publisher's abstract places Gadamer in philosophical hermeneutics but does not state the hermeneutic circle or its productive character, and says nothing about economic or biological cycles.
“In this book, Gadamer established the field of 'philosophical hermeneutics': exploring the nature of knowledge, the book rejected traditional quasi-scientific approaches to establishing cultural meaning that were prevalent after the war.”
- Economics and biology. Business, inventory, debt, and electoral cycles, and nutrient, predator–prey, circadian, and life cycles, are each a closed loop of state-change — often with a conserved quantity such as mass or energy carried around it. Hermeneutics and interpretation. The hermeneutic circle — interpreting the whole requires interpreting the parts and vice versa — is a closed dependency that is productive rather than pathological, navigated by spiralling iteration.
- Hermeneutic Circle
- Gadamer's 1960 horizon-fusion account
This sourceContinuum. (Original Wahrheit und Methode published 1960.) Develops the hermeneutic doctrine of the "fusion of horizons" — the interpreter's prejudices and the past's horizon must come into dialogical encounter rather than one being suppressed by the other.
Supported in partVerified against the publisher's abstract
The publisher's abstract confirms this as Gadamer's founding work of philosophical hermeneutics, but never names the horizon-fusion doctrine itself.
“In this book, Gadamer established the field of 'philosophical hermeneutics': exploring the nature of knowledge, the book rejected traditional quasi-scientific approaches to establishing cultural meaning that were prevalent after the war.”
- Gadamer's 1960 horizon-fusion account
- Historical Empathy
- T4 — Asymmetric application. Historical empathy is often extended more generously to past actors of the interpreter's own tradition than to those of other traditions, producing asymmetric historiography in which "our" past is reconstructed contextually while "their" past is judged presentistically.
This sourceContinuum. (Original Wahrheit und Methode published 1960.) Develops the hermeneutic doctrine of the "fusion of horizons" — the interpreter's prejudices and the past's horizon must come into dialogical encounter rather than one being suppressed by the other.
- T4 — Asymmetric application. Historical empathy is often extended more generously to past actors of the interpreter's own tradition than to those of other traditions, producing asymmetric historiography in which "our" past is reconstructed contextually while "their" past is judged presentistically.
- Interpretation
- This is what Gadamer (1960) calls the productive character of understanding — the interpreter is not a passive receiver but an active constituent of meaning, while remaining bound by what the text or sign will support.
This sourceContinuum. (Original Wahrheit und Methode published 1960.) Develops the hermeneutic doctrine of the "fusion of horizons" — the interpreter's prejudices and the past's horizon must come into dialogical encounter rather than one being suppressed by the other.
- This is what Gadamer (1960) calls the productive character of understanding — the interpreter is not a passive receiver but an active constituent of meaning, while remaining bound by what the text or sign will support.
- Phenomenology
- Heidegger argued all phenomenological description is interpretive; pure description of experience-as-it-appears is impossible because understanding itself is hermeneutic (already interpretive, historically situated, linguistically mediated).
This sourceContinuum. (Original Wahrheit und Methode published 1960.) Develops the hermeneutic doctrine of the "fusion of horizons" — the interpreter's prejudices and the past's horizon must come into dialogical encounter rather than one being suppressed by the other.
- Heidegger argued all phenomenological description is interpretive; pure description of experience-as-it-appears is impossible because understanding itself is hermeneutic (already interpretive, historically situated, linguistically mediated).
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