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The Event of Meaning in Gadamer’s Hermeneutics book cover

1st Edition

The Event of Meaning in Gadamer’s Hermeneutics

By Carlo DaVia, Greg Lynch Copyright 2024
252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge

252 Pages
by Routledge
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This book presents the first detailed treatment of Gadamer’s account of the nature of meaning. It argues both that this account is philosophically valuable in its own right and that understanding it sheds new light on his wider hermeneutical project. Whereas philosophers have typically thought of meanings as belonging to a special class of objects, the central claim of Gadamer’s view is that... Read more

Introduction

1. Occasionality

2. Ideality

3. Interpreting Correctly

4. Originalism and the Fusion of Horizons

5. Aspects of Being

6. Essences

7. The Task of Philosophy

Biography

Carlo DaVia is a Lecturer in Latin and Classical Studies at the University of California, Riverside, as well as an Instructor at the CUNY Latin/Greek Institute. He has published articles in a number of venues, including the Journal of the History of Philosophy, European Journal of Philosophy, and the Review of Metaphysics.

Greg Lynch is Associate Professor of Philosophy at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. He is co-editor (with Cynthia Nielsen) of Gadamer’s Truth and Method: A Polyphonic Commentary and he has published essays in a range of venues, including Ergo, Philosophical Investigations, Acta Analytica, and The Southern Journal of Philosophy.

"By using the lens of the event of meaning, DaVia and Lynch revive the legacy of Gadamer’s hermeneutics and show Gadamer in a new light, opening up new encounters with his work from both continental and analytic philosophical approaches to language, meaning, and interpretation."

Gert-Jan van der Heiden, Radboud University, The Netherlands

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