Gadamer's Historically Effected and Effective Consciousness

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ID9688937
AutoresIñaki Xavier Larrauri Pertierra (0000-0003-1244-6934, Macquarie University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2022
Volumen61
Número2
Páginas261-284
Fecha de publicación2022-08-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDialogue (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0012-2173 • E-ISSN: 1759-0949
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0012217322000178
OpenAlexW4280534805
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas20

Hans-Georg Gadamer argues that consciousness not only historically constrains experience but also allows strangeness to intelligibly speak to it. This historically effected and effective consciousness features in Gadamer's idea that a common language is unearthed for the interpretive horizons of those involved in dialogue with each other through a logic of question and answer. I argue, however, that this reveals a conceptual uncertainty about evaluating progress in interpretive understanding. Gadamer's failure to escape from this uncertainty risks the possibility of a problematic relativism. Effectively, even if sufficient interpretation occurs when horizons are infinitely structured, this does not preclude incoherence between a horizon's elements

Consciousness · Epistemology · Horizon · Interpretation (philosophy) · Linguistics · Relativism · Sociology · Embodied and Extended Cognition · Karl Barth and Christian Theology · Mathematics · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy

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