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Gadamer and Wittgenstein on the Unity of Language Reality and Discourse without Metaphysics
By Patrick Rogers Horn
Copyright 2005
152 Pages
by
Routledge
152 Pages
by
Routledge
152 Pages
by
Routledge
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In this innovative comparison of Gadamer and Wittgenstein, the author explores their common concern with the relation of language to reality. Patrick Horn's starting point is the widely accepted view that both philosophers rejected a certain metaphysical account of that relation in which reality determines the nature of language. Horn proceeds to argue that Gadamer never completely escaped... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Prejudices as conditions of understanding; Historicity: limit or limitation?; Universal hermeneutics; Wittgenstein's Tractatus and the unity of a calculus; Rush Rhees and the unity of a life; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Patrick Rogers Horn is Associate Dean and Assistant Professor at the School of Religion, Claremont Graduate University, USA.
’Horn's book is the next generation of scholarship on Wittgenstein and Gadamer, a thoughtful critique of specific positions taken by hermeneutic philosophy presented in the context of analytical inquiry more careful now to call itself, at least on some levels and to some degree, as much ally as foe.’ Philosophical Investigations
