Unfinished Worlds : Hermeneutics, Aesthetics and Gadamer
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Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
Crosscurrents
ISBN-10
0748686223
ISBN-13
9780748686223
Publisher
Edinburgh University Press
Imprint
Edinburgh University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 18th, 2013
Print length
200 Pages
Weight
428 grams
Dimensions
16.10 x 23.30 x 1.70 cms
Product Classification:
Western philosophy, from c 1900 -Philosophy: aesthetics
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By concentrating on the experience of meaning, Nicholas Davey shows how Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics transforms aesthetics into a mode of attentive practice. Gadamer's poetics has deep implications for all of the humanities, and how we can understand the meaning poetry, art, literary, history and theology.
Gadamer''s aesthetics demonstrates that the experience of art is grounded in the objectivities of language, history and tradition. By treating words and images as transmittable placeholders for meanings and concepts, hermeneutics gives a persuasive account of how artworks communicate. Davey demonstrates how hermeneutics transforms aesthetic reflection into a poignant attentive practice that is open to the unexpected. This new "poetics" is relevant not only to the understanding of art but also to showing, explaining and defending the cognitive content of the humanities. Hermeneutic aesthetics provides a sound basis for re-thinking humanities disciplines as critical-creative practices able to re-envision the future.
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