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- The Inner Word in Gadamer's Hermeneutics
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- 2009
- Published by: University of Notre Dame Press
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This intellectual history and textual analysis of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s famous and obscure theme of the verbum interius, or “inner word,” serves as an indispensable guide to and reference for hermeneutic theory. John Arthos here gives a full exposition and interpretation of the medieval doctrine of the inner word, long one of the most challenging ideas in Gadamer’s Truth and Method. The scholastic idea of a word that is thought but not yet spoken served Augustine as an analogy for the procession of the Trinity, served Aquinas as the medium between divine ideas and human expression, and serves Gadamer as an expression of the embodied nature of human language. Arthos offers a history of the idea of the inner word in ancient and medieval thought, its place in German philosophy, and its significance for probing the deepest implications of hermeneutic understanding. Arthos also provides a close reading of Gadamer’s exegesis of the source texts of the doctrine of the inner word. He cross-references Gadamer’s analyses with the original texts and draws out their Heideggerian and Hegelian overtones. Through this close reading, Arthos deepens our understanding of the radical nature of Gadamer’s thought, which not only calls upon the authority of tradition but also develops some of the profoundest insights of classical and Judaeo-Christian teaching about language.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- p. xvii
- Abbreviations
- pp. xix-xx
- The Verbum in the History of Ideas
- Heidegger: On the Way to the Verbum
- pp. 194-216
- Exegesis, Truth and Method, Part III, 2, B
- The Verbum and Augustine's Inner Word
- pp. 219-259
- The Aquinas Section
- pp. 260-284
- The Neoplatonist Section
- pp. 285-310
- The Three Differences
- pp. 311-334
- Conclusion
- Gadamer and the Verbum Interius
- pp. 351-361
- Bibliography
- pp. 441-457
Additional Information
ISBN
9780268074647
Related ISBN(s)
9780268020347
MARC Record
OCLC
680433461
Pages
520
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No