TY - BOOK ID - 30232856 TI - Gadamer and the legacy of german idealism AU - Gjesdal, Kristin AU - Cambridge University Press PY - 2009 SN - 9781107404335 9780521509640 9780511770432 9780511769603 0511769601 9780511766534 051176653X 0521509645 1107189543 0511847815 1107404339 1282651471 9786612651472 0511768761 0511765142 0511767927 051177043X PB - Cambridge [etc.] Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Gadamer, Hans-Georg KW - Aesthetics KW - Hermeneutics KW - Idealism, German KW - German idealism KW - Interpretation, Methodology of KW - Criticism KW - Beautiful, The KW - Beauty KW - Esthetics KW - Taste (Aesthetics) KW - Philosophy KW - Art KW - Literature KW - Proportion KW - Symmetry KW - Psychology KW - Gadamer, Hans-Georg, KW - Idealism, German. KW - Hermeneutics. KW - Aesthetics. KW - Arts and Humanities KW - Radio broadcasting Aesthetics UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:30232856 AB - The philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer interests a wide audience that spans the traditional distinction between European (continental) and Anglo-American (analytic) philosophy. Yet one of the most important and complex aspects of his work - his engagement with German Idealism - has received comparatively little attention. In this book, Kristin Gjesdal uses a close analysis and critical investigation of Gadamer's Truth and Method (1960) to show that his engagement with Kant, Hegel, and Schleiermacher is integral to his conception of hermeneutics. She argues that a failure to engage with this aspect of Gadamer's philosophy leads to a misunderstanding of the most pressing problem of post-Heideggerian hermeneutics: the tension between the commitment to the self-criticism of reason, on the one hand, and the turn towards the meaning-constituting authority of tradition, on the other. Her study provides an illuminating assessment of both the merits and the limitations of Gadamer's thought. ER -