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Between Enlightenment and Romanticism: Some Problems and Challenges in Gadamer’s Hermeneutics
- Journal of the History of Philosophy
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 46, Number 2, April 2008
- pp. 285-305
- 10.1353/hph.0.0008
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The essay takes as its point of departure the way in which the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer has recently been adopted by philosophers such as Richard Rorty, John McDowell, and Robert Brandom. While appreciating the way in which Truth and Method has gained new relevance within an Anglo-American context, I ask whether sufficient attention has been paid to Gadamer’s romantic heritage. In particular I question the way in which his notion of tradition and historical truth, designed as it is to overcome the ramifications of Descartes and the Kantian enlightenment, is modeled on the example of art and aesthetic experience.