THE GADAMER READER:
A Bouquet of the Later Writings
CONTENTS
Introduction iv
Abbreviations vii
1. Self-Presentation 1
I. Defining the Idea of a Philosophical Hermeneutics
2. Classical and Philosophical Hermeneutics 44
3. The Universality of the Hermeneutical Problem 84
4. Language and Understanding 104
5. Hermeneutics on the Trace 124
II. Hermeneutics, Art, and Poetry
6. Aesthetics and Hermeneutics 162
7. On the Truth of the Word 172
8. Text und Interpretation 200
9. The Artwork in Word and Image 240
10. From Word to Concept 282
III. Hermeneutics and Practical Philosophy
11. Hermeneutics as Practical Philosophy 297
12. Hermeneutics as a Theoretical and Practical Task 319
13. Greek Philosophy and Modern Thinking 339
14. On the Possibility of a Philosophical Ethics 349
IV. Gadamer on Plato, Hegel, and Heidegger
15. Plato as Portraitist 370
16. The Heritage of Hegel 401
17. Heidegger and the Language of Metaphysics 430
18. Hermeneutics and the Ontological Difference 442
V. Conclusion
19. Looking Back with Jean Grondin 460
last page 481
NOTES
INDEX