Gadamer and the Mechanics of Culture
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4376099 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Douglas Brooks (corresponding author), Douglas A Brooks |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 673-694 |
| Publication date | 2003-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Poetics Today (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0333-5372 • E-ISSN: 1527-5507 |
| Publisher | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/03335372-24-4-673 |
| OpenAlex | W2023002758 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 25 |
The guest editors of this special issue, James A. Knapp and Jeffrey Pence,contend that the current preoccupation with the materiality of things has usually generated a polarization between "history" and"theory" in literary criticism, whereby the work of scholars who continue to align themselves with the critical motives and methods of theory is dismissed for being un- or trans-historical. The primary goal of this essay is to suggest a middle way between these polarities, especially concerning recent scholarly interest in the history of the book. Specifically, this essay argues that Hans-Georg Gadamer's important contribution to the field of hermeneutics not only anticipates recent developments in textual scholarship,but also has much to offer scholars who are attempting to write the history of the material book. In such light, the so-called "turn toward history" commented upon at length in this issue does not require a concomitant turning away from theory. The essay begins with an examination of some important links between Gadamer's most significant assertions about the hermeneutic consciousness and comparably significant assertions about the study of the material book. Subsequently, this comparative analysis is applied to the discussion of a specific material book, the 1623 First Folio of Shakespeare. From both of these contexts (general and specific), we can begin to see the necessity of a mutual engagement between"history" and "theory
Aesthetics · Art · Consciousness · Criticism · Epistemology · Hermeneutics · History of literature · Literature · Scholarship · Sociology · Karl Barth and Christian Theology · Law · Philosophy · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
Technopoly
Space Between Words
Printed Commonplace-Books and the Structuring of Renaissance Thought
The Printing Press as an Agent of Change
The Nature of the Book
Sweetness and power
Reality and Its Shadow
Lear from Study to Stage
Material Culture and Cultural Materialisms in the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Unediting the Renaissance
The Imprint of Gender, Authorship, and Publication in the English Renaissance
Printed Commonplace Books and the Structuring of Renaissance Thought
Sexuality and Gender in Early Modern Europe
Material London, ca. 1600
Reading Revolutions
The History and Power of Writing
The order of books
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |