History, dialogue and language in communication

This article is a study of philosophical hermeneutics as presented by Hans-Georg Gadamer in Truth and method, first published in 1960. Gadamer's perspective is that human understanding is always historical, dialectical and linguistic. He is not concerned with presenting a methodology for correct interpretation but with describing the activity of understanding in general. He shows that understanding is the fundamental condition for the possibility of all human experience and enquiry, and that ultimately all understanding takes place in language. The written text thus becomes the paradigm for all modes of understanding whether these be historical, theological, legal, artistic or the experiences that we encounter in our everyday lives

Dialectic · Hermeneutics · Human science · Counseling, Therapy, and Family Dynamics · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy

• Literary Theory

  Jonathan Culler, Jonathan D Culler•Literary theory•2011

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