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Blogging through Truth and Method post 11: Analysis of Historically Effected Consciousness (341-379) 12 Jul 2013 | 05:25 pm
The problem with which the previous section (307-341) of Truth and Method ends is truly compelling, if one breaks down the problem as a (simplified) syllogism: Hermeneutics, as a practice, involves t...
Blogging through Truth and Method post 10: The Recovery of the Fundamental Hermeneutic Problem (307-341) 9 Jul 2013 | 02:00 pm
Once upon a time, hermeneutics conceived of understanding as involving two processes: understanding and interpretation, to which Pietism added a third, application. The great advance of the Romanti...
A Collage of a Pastorate: A Review of Trinitarian Letters for SpeakEasy Bloggers 30 Jun 2013 | 10:03 am
Trinitarian Letters: Your Adoption and Inclusion in the Life of God by Paul Kurts. 232 pp. West Bow Press. $19.99. Some books convince with well-shaped arguments, and others move the reader with c...
Blogging through Truth and Method post 9: The Elevation of the Historicity of Understanding (265-307) 29 Jun 2013 | 06:21 pm
With the brief history of hermeneutical thinking in the book, Gadamer turns in this section of Truth and Method to constructing a hermeneutics that takes seriously the thrown-and-projected nature of D...
Blogging through Truth and Method post 8: Overcoming the Epistemological Problem (242-264) 25 Jun 2013 | 07:06 pm
Husserl brought the entire notion of the given—so important for German idealism—into question; in so doing, he moved beyond Dilthey, at least to a certain extent. In fact, an examination of Husserl...
Blogging through Truth and Method post 7: Dilthey’s Entanglement in the Aporias of Historicism (218-241) 21 Jun 2013 | 10:39 am
The section of Truth and Method that contains this chapter is called “Historical Preparations,” and one of the oddities of blogging about it is that I’m writing about an entire section dedicated to a ...
Blogging through Truth and Method post 6: The Questionableness of Romantic Hermeneutics (173-218) 18 Jun 2013 | 06:19 pm
In this section, Gadamer attempts to undermine Romantic hermeneutics; to do so, he will retrace Wilhelm Dilthey’s steps with different goals than the ones that Dilthey had. Hermeneutics develops i...
Blogging through Truth and Method post 5: Aesthetic and Hermeneutic Consequences (134-169) 11 Jun 2013 | 05:37 pm
When Michial and I read Being and Time back in 2009, the best thing about that book was that, through careful phenomenological examination, Heidegger gave me occasion to think carefully about the ever...
Blogging through Truth and Method, post 4: Play as the Clue to Ontological Explanation (101-134) 7 Jun 2013 | 06:29 pm
Gadamer’s analysis of aesthetics will be oriented around the notion of play, but he wants to liberate the concept from the subjective bearing that it finds in the work of Kant and Schiller. Were we th...
Blogging through Truth and Method, post 3: Retrieving the Question of Artistic Truth (81-100) 4 Jun 2013 | 03:44 pm
Art has not always been a matter of “appearance” as opposed to the sciences’ “reality” or a matter of the “timeless” in any uncomplicated sense. This section of Truth and Method is a history not of t...
