The Inner Word in Gadamer's Hermeneutics

Acknowledgments

 Acknowledgments I am especially appreciative to Jeffrey Hause for his careful review and correction of my Aquinas translations, including the opusculum De natura verbi intellectus, located in the appendix of this book. He applied himself with the devotion of a true medievalist to a Thomist tract that Gadamer himself described as “schwierige and gehaltvolle” (Wahrheit und Methode, 426, note 45). I would like to thank Denison University for an R.C. Good Fellowship and DURF grant that were helpful in finishing this book. I would also like to thank Pam Magelaner and the entire Doane Library reference staff, Ludwig Ries at the Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg archives for his research assistance, Chuck van Hof at the University of Notre Dame Press for having faith in this project,Margaret Hyre for her careful copy editing, and Gabriele Dillmann, my German teacher. A version of chapter 4 appeared in the American Catholic Philosophical Quarterly 78:4 (2004): 581‒ ‒608 as“The Word Is Not Reflexive: Mind and World in Aquinas and Gadamer.” Kind thanks also go to Mohr Siebeck for permission to quote extensively from Wahrheit und Methode. xvii ...