Hans-Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method

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ID23569880
AuthorsJoshua Foa Dienstag (0000-0003-0315-688X, Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles, corresponding author)
Year2016
Publication date2016-03-07
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeCHAPTER
VenueThe Oxford Handbook of Classics in Contemporary Political Theory (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198717133.013.20
OpenAlexW2337504234
ISBN9780198717133
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited7

Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Truth and Method offers a distinctive account of the human relationship to language and history. The book had a transformative effect on many fields, including political theory. It offers a persuasive hermeneutic theory of what the obstacles to and possibilities for textual interpretation actually are and thus forms an account of the proper practice of political theory that is superior to the rival claims of historicism, Straussianism, or post-modernism. Simultaneously, it offers an account of the relationship of individuals to language-communities that recognizes their significance for cultures and persons without reifying their moral or political value. Gadamer’s account of language points toward openness and democracy rather than identity politics or nationalism.

Aesthetics · Democracy · Epistemology · Historicism · Identity (music) · Interpretation (philosophy) · Linguistics · Nationalism · Openness to experience · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Transformative learning · Value (mathematics) · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought · Social Psychology

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