The Language of Hermeneutics: Gadamer and Heidegger in Dialogue (S U N Y Series in Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

__The first book in English on Gadamer's relationship to Heidegger, this study illustrates the philosophical power Gadamer's thinking has achieved by departing from Heidegger's at certain crucial moments.__ The Language of Hermeneutics CONTENTS PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ABBREVIATIONS Texts by Gadamer: Texts by Hegel: Texts by Heidegger: Texts by Hölderlin: INTRODUCTION: THE HERMENEUTICAL PROXIMITY OF PHILOSOPHICAL DISTANCE PART 1 PHRONETIC APPLICATION AND DIALECTICAL PARTICIPATION ONE Heidegger and Gadamer on Aristotle: The Facticity of Phronesis* and the Phenomenon of Applicatio... Heidegger's Phronetic Retrieval of Aristotle Gadamer's Appropriation of Heideggerian Phronesis TWO Platonic Methexis: Heidegger's Aristotelian Destruktion and Gadamer's Heideggerian Wiederholung... Gadamer, Neo-Kantianism, and Hermeneutics A Young Scholar at Marburg Developmental Constructs Truth and Method and the History of Hermeneutics Heidegger's "Problem" with Plato Gadamer and Dialectical Participation Plato and the Sophists Plato and the Apparent Irony of Mimesis Dialectic, Hermeneutics, and Play Plato's Dialectical Ontology PART 2 HEGELIAN DIALECTIC AND HÖLDERLINIAN POETICS THREE Heidegger, Hölderlin, and Tragic Intensification The Finite Locale of Dasein and the Language of Topology Hölderlin's (Non)Dialectical Poetics The "Highest Fire" Heidegger's Hölderlinian Dwelling FOUR Gadamer's Hegelian Liberation of Language and Being Hegel and the Question of Finitude Gadamer and the "Spirit" of Hegel The Middle of Language : The Middle of Being CONCLUSION: THE COUNTER-TURNING DIALOGUE NOTES Introduction Chapter One Chapter Two Part Two (Introduction) Chapter Three Chapter Four Conclusion BIBLIOGRAPHY Primary Sources Secondary Works INDEX A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W Z The Language Of Hermeneutics Probes The Most Intense Points Of Proximity Between The Philosophical Hermeneutics Of Hans-georg Gadamer And The Poetizing Thinking Of His Great Teacher, Martin Heidegger - Points Of Proximity Which Nevertheless Show As Clearly As Possible The Critical Points Of Departure That Set These Two Thinkers On Separate Parallel Thought Paths. By Focusing Exclusively On These Two Thinkers' Respective Readings Of Plato, Aristotle, Holderlin, And Hegel, This Book Shows How Gadamer Effectively Deconstructs His Mentor's Architectonic Of The History Of Being And Retrieves From It A New Mode Of Philosophizing That Recognizes And Embraces The Fundamentally Ironic Structure Of The World And Boldly Risks An Interpretation Of It. Introduction: The Hermeneutical Proximity Of Philosophical Distance -- Pt. 1. Phronetic Application And Dialectical Participation. 1. Heidegger And Gadamer On Aristotle: The Facticity Of Phronesis And The Phenomenon Of Application. 2. Platonic Methexis: Heidegger's Aristotelian Destruktion And Gadamer's Heideggerian Wiederholung -- Pt. 2. Hegelian Dialectic And Holderlinian Poetics. 3. Heidegger, Holderlin, And Tragic Intensification. 4. Gadamer's Hegelian Liberation Of Language And Being -- Conclusion: The Counter-turning Dialogue. Rod Coltman. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 153-180) And Index. The first book in English on Gadamer's relationship to Heidegger, this study illustrates the philosophical power Gadamer's thinking has achieved by departing from Heidegger's at certain crucial moments.The Language of Hermeneutics probes the most intense points of proximity between the philosophical hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer and the poetizing thinking of his great teacher, Martin Heidegger--points of proximity which nevertheless show as clearly as possible the critical points of departure that set these two thinkers on separate parallel thought paths. By focusing exclusively on these two thinkers'respective readings of Plato, Aristotle, Holderlin, and Hegel, this book shows how Gadamer effectively deconstructs his mentor's architectonic of the history of being and retrieves from it a new mode of philosophizing that recognizes and embraces the fundamentally ironic structure of the world and boldly risks an interpretation of it.Rod Coltman is an Instructor in the School of Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas. He is the translator of Hans-Georg Gadamer's The Beginning of Philosophy.

The Language of Hermeneutics probes the most intense points of proximity between the philosophical hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer and the poetizing thinking of his great teacher, Martin Heidegger - points of proximity which nevertheless show as clearly as possible the critical points of departure that set these two thinkers on separate parallel thought paths. By focusing exclusively on these two thinkers' respective readings of Plato, Aristotle, Holderlin, and Hegel, this book shows how Gadamer effectively deconstructs his mentor's architectonic of the history of being and retrieves from it a new mode of philosophizing that recognizes and embraces the fundamentally ironic structure of the world and boldly risks an interpretation of it.