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UNFINISHED WORLDS
HERMENEUTICS, AESTHETICS AND GADAMER

By:

Nicholas Davey

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Hardback

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ISBN 10:

0748686223

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9780748686223

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Publisher:

EDINBURGH UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

18 November, 2013

Series:

Crosscurrents

Pages:

216

Description:

Hans-Georg Gadamer's poetics completely overturns the European aesthetic tradition. This full-length study in English of Gadamer's aesthetics draws on a significant proportion of Gadamer's latter essays on art and aesthetics. It explores the far-reaching consequences of Gadamer's hermeneutical critique of aesthetics.

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This book explores the far-reaching consequences of Gadamer's hermeneutical critique of aesthetics. Hans-Georg Gadamer's poetics completely overturns the European aesthetic tradition. By concentrating on how we experience the meaning of artworks, Gadamer's poetics has deep implications for how we can understand the meaning of poetry, art, literature, history and theology. This emphasis on participation promises an approach that will revolutionise how we appreciate and understand art, and gives us new ways to think about the value and productivity of the humanities. This is the first full-length study in English of Gadamer's aesthetics. It draws on a significant proportion of Gadamer's latter essays on art and aesthetics. It presents aesthetic attention as a form of practice.

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Edinburgh University Press

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