The Temporality of Tarrying in Gadamer

Bibliographic Data

ID2351933
AuthorsSheila Ro (corresponding author), Sheila Ross (Faculty of Language, Literature and Performing Arts at Douglas College, British Columbia, corresponding author)
Year2006
Volume23
Issue1
Pages101-123
Publication date2006-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueTheory Culture & Society (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0263-2764 • E-ISSN: 1460-3616
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0263276406063231
OpenAlexW2095177227
LanguageEN
Citations received62
References cited13

This article presents Gadamer's interest in temporality as his strategy for advancing hermeneutics as philosophy of experience, a strategy becoming significantly more salient with the appearance of his 1992 essay, 'Wort und Bild'. I demonstrate how temporal categories readily demarcate the problem of ontological imbalance so central in Gadamer's philosophical project, a demarcation that removes any illusion of compatibility between Gadamer and the hermeneutics of Paul Ricoeur. The article also considers some common misunderstandings of Gadamer resulting from a failure to take full account of his interest in temporality, misunderstandings that prohibit recognizing the radical potential of Gadamer's hermeneutical philosophy for our understanding of human finitude. A full account of this orientation must begin with a grasp of the exemplariness of art in his philosophy, and in this connection, the article raises the question of Gadamer's late interest in the distinct exemplariness, not of lyric poetry, but of narrative art

Epistemology · Hermeneutics · Linguistics · Narrative · Salient · Temporality · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · History · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism