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| Reading: In the philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer, reading is a process of dialogue between the reader and the text. The reader brings their own experiences and understanding to the text, and the text challenges and expands the reader's horizon. See also Texts, Writing, Understanding, Hermeneutics, Interpretation, Horizon._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Hans-Georg Gadamer on Reading - Dictionary of Arguments
I 340 Reading/Hermeneutics/History/Philology/Gadamer: The historian behaves differently [than the hermeneutician] to handed-down texts in that he or she strives to recognize a piece of the past through them. I 341 The historian feels it to be the philologist's weakness that he or she sees a text as a work of art. I 342 The philologist is a historian if he or she wins his or her own historical dimension from the literary sources. Understanding then means to put a given text into the context of the history of language, the literary form, the I 343 style, etc., and in such mediation finally to place them in the whole of the historical context of life. I 345 Reading/Gadamer: Our considerations rather go in the opposite direction. Truly there is never a reader before whose eyes the great book of world history is simply opened. But there is also never the reader who, when he or she has a text before his or her eyes, simply reads what is written. In all reading, there is rather an application, so that whoever reads a text is still in it in the sense he or she has heard it. The reader is part of the text he or she understands. It will always be the case that the line of meaning that appears to him or her when reading a text necessarily breaks off in an open indeterminacy. He or she can, indeed, must admit to him- or herself that future generations will understand what he or she has read in the text differently. What is true for every reader is also true for the historian. I 346 Only that for the historian it is the whole of historical tradition that he or she has to communicate with the present of his or her own life if he or she wants to understand it, and that he or she thus keeps open into the future. Cf. >Hearing, >Writing._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Gadamer I Hans-Georg Gadamer Wahrheit und Methode. Grundzüge einer philosophischen Hermeneutik 7. durchgesehene Auflage Tübingen 1960/2010 Gadamer II H. G. Gadamer The Relevance of the Beautiful, London 1986 German Edition: Die Aktualität des Schönen: Kunst als Spiel, Symbol und Fest Stuttgart 1977 |
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