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- Title
IS GADAMER'S HERMENEUTICS INHERENTLY CONSERVATIVE?
- Authors
ATKINSON, CAMILLE E.
- Abstract
According to two critics, Georgia Warnke and John Caputo, Gadamer's hermeneutics is inherently „conservative" insofar as he appeals to tradition as a constituent in understanding. They insist that he simply preserves the ideals, norms and values of the Western metaphysical tradition without critically examining them. I do not agree and will argue that views like this depend upon several false assumptions -- for example, that Gadamer reifies the text as a „thing-in-itself" (Sache selbst) and remains trapped in subjectivism. I will begin by examining some of the ways in which these charges might be warranted before proceeding to defend him.
- Publication
Forum Philosophicum, 2009, Vol 14, Issue 2, p285
- ISSN
1426-1898
- Publication type
Academic Journal