Gadamer on Art and Aesthetic Experience
Rethinking Hermeneutical Aesthetics Today
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Gadamer on Art and Aesthetic Experience
Rethinking Hermeneutical Aesthetics Today
About this book
Original essays on Hans-Georg Gadamer's hermeneutical aesthetics and philosophy of art, written by some of the most important authors in this field, disclosing the possibility of a renewed understanding of Gadamer's thinking in the context of current aesthetic debates.
Hans-Georg Gadamer was one of the greatest intellectual figures of the twentieth century. As a philosopher trained in phenomenology, he established philosophical hermeneutics as one of the leading traditions of contemporary philosophy and opened new paths for philosophical reflection. Within the many dimensions of Gadamer's vast, complex, and multifaceted thinking, a special role is played by the question concerning the relevance of the various arts and the centrality of aesthetic experience in human life. Despite being one of the most relevant voices of twentieth-century philosophy, Gadamer's hermeneutics has at times been overlooked in contemporary philosophical debates. The firm conviction at the basis of this volume is that Gadamer's thought is still relevant today, especially regarding aesthetic questions concerning the persistent meaning and truth of art in the age of what he called "the shadow of nihilism" and in the age of the so-called "end of art." In contrast to the claim that Gadamer's philosophy is "anti-modern," or allegedly "out of date" in comparison to other philosophical approaches to aesthetic questions, Gadamer on Art and Aesthetic Experience aims to show that a renewed and critical confrontation with Gadamer's aesthetic thinking can offer stimulating and penetrating insights to understand the role of art in contemporary society in all its transformations and its challenging manifestations.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Introduction. Gadamer on Art and Aesthetic Experience: Rethinking Hermeneutical Aesthetics Today
- 1 Gadamerâs Understanding of Art as Presentation: Study on a Key Concept of Gadamerâs Philosophy
- 2 Gadamerâs Hermeneutical Aesthetics as Practical Philosophy
- 3 The Aesthetics of the Invisible in Hans-Georg Gadamer
- 4 The âUnshapely Formâ of the Work of Art: Parsing the Structure of an Irresolvable Paradox
- 5 Critiquing Gadamerâs Aesthetics: Hermeneutics and the Specificity of the Aesthetic
- 6 Language without Sentences: The Rhythmic Nature of Art
- 7 Gadamer and Pareyson on Hermeneutics and Improvisation
- 8 Playing and Reading: The Performative Paradigm in Gadamerâs Aesthetics
- 9 On the Challenge of Poetry to Thought: A Gadamerian Perspective
- 10 Gadamerian Reflections on Celan and the Witness and Wounding of the Poetic Word
- List of Contributors
- Author Index
- Back Cover