The Gadamer Reader: A Bouquet of the Later Writings

PREFACE BY RICHARD E. PALMER 1. Autobiographical Reflections I. DEFINING THE IDEA OF A PHILOSOPHICAL HERMENEUTICS 2. Classical and Philosophical Hermeneutics 3. The Universality of the Hermeneutical Problem 4. Language and Understanding 5. Hermeneutics Tracking the Trace II. HERMENEUTICS, ART, AND POETRY 6. Aesthetics and Hermeneutics 7. On the Truth of the Word 8. Text and Interpretation 9. The Artwork in Word and Image 10. From Word to Concept III. HERMENEUTICS AND PRACTICAL PHILOSOPHY 11. Hermeneutics as Practical Philosophy 12. Hermeneutics as a Theoretical and Practical Task 13. Greek Philosophy and Modern Thinking 14. On the Possibility of a Philosophical Ethics IV. GADAMER ON PLATO, HEGEL, AND HEIDEGGER 15. Plato as Portraitist 16. The Heritage of Hegel 17. Heidegger and the Language of Metaphysics 18. Hermeneutics and the Ontological Difference CONCLUSION 19. Gadamer in a Dialogical Review of His Writings with Jean Grondin.