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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.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Frontmatter
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  1. Contents
  2. pp. vii-viii
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  1. Preface
  2. pp. ix-xv
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. p. xvii
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  1. Abbreviations
  2. pp. xix-xx
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  1. Introduction: From Logos to Verbum to Sprache
  2. pp. 1-28
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  1. The Verbum in the History of Ideas
  1. The Graeco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian Word
  2. pp. 31-69
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  1. Immanence and Transcendence in the Trinity
  2. pp. 70-97
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  1. "The Word Is Not Reflexive": Mind and World in Aquinas and Gadamer
  2. pp. 135-161
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  1. The Pattern of Hegel's Trinity: The Legacy of Christian Immanence in German Thought
  2. pp. 162-193
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  1. Heidegger: On the Way to the Verbum
  2. pp. 194-216
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  1. Exegesis, Truth and Method, Part III, 2, B
  1. The Verbum and Augustine's Inner Word
  2. pp. 219-259
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  1. The Aquinas Section
  2. pp. 260-284
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  1. The Neoplatonist Section
  2. pp. 285-310
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  1. The Three Differences
  2. pp. 311-334
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  1. Gadamer's Summation and Prospectus (pars. 21-22)
  2. pp. 335-348
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  1. Conclusion
  1. Gadamer and the Verbum Interius
  2. pp. 351-361
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  1. Appendix: Source Texts De natura verbi intellectus and De differentia verbi divini et humani
  2. pp. 362-389
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  1. Notes
  2. pp. 390-440
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  1. Bibliography
  2. pp. 441-457
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 458-460
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