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| Word: a structure separated by spaces from other words within a language. In general, words are formed by one or more characters which are attached to one another. Whole words can in turn be interpreted as signs. In human languages, the elements of the words are letters; in computer languages, other symbols are used within words. See also concepts, expressions, terms, language, characters, symbols, subsentential, meaning._____________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 Words - Dictionary of Arguments
I 431 Word/Gadamer: Word of God: The risen and the preached Christ are one and the same. Modern Protestant theology in particular has developed the eschatological character of belief based on this dialectical relationship. >Word of God/Gadamer. Human Word/Unity/Multiplicity/Gadamer: Conversely, in the human word the dialectical relation of the multiplicity of words to the unity of the word in its new light is revealed. Plato had recognized that the human word has the character of speech, i.e. that it expresses the unity of an opinion through the order of a multiplicity of words, and had developed this structure of the logos in a dialectical way. Aristotle then pointed out the logical structures that make up the sentence or judgement or the sentence context or the conclusion. But the situation is not yet exhausted. The unity of the word, which is interpreted in the multiplicity of words, also makes something visible that does not fit into the essential structure of logic and brings out the character of the events in language: the process of concept formation. >Concept/Gadamer. I 461 Word/Gadamer: The word is not simply, as medieval thinking thought, the perfection of the species. If being is represented in the thinking spirit, then this is not the representation of a given order of being, whose true conditions are before the eyes of an infinite spirit (the Creator Spirit). Cf. >Creation Myth/Gadamer. The word, however, is also not an instrument that, like the language of mathematics, is capable of constructing an objectified universe of being that is made available through calculation. (Cf. >Sign/Plato). No more than an infinite spirit can an infinite will surpass the experience of being adequate to our finiteness. It is the center of language alone that, in relation to the whole of being, conveys the finite-historical essence of the human with him- or herself and with the world. >Language/Gadamer, >Unity and Multiplicity/Plato. I 462 "Centre of language"/Gadamer: Each word makes the whole of the language it belongs to sound and the whole of the world view it is based on appear. Every word therefore, as the event of its moment, also lets the unsaid be there, to which it refers in responding and waving. I 465 The important thing is that something happens here. Neither does the interpreter's consciousness master what reaches it as the Word of Tradition, nor can what happens be adequately described as the progressive realization of what is, so that an infinite intellect would contain all that which could ever speak from the whole of tradition. But the actual event is only made possible by this, namely that the word that has come to us as tradition and to which we have to listen, really meets us, as if it addressed us and meant I 466 ourselves. Object/Gadamer: (...) on the part of the "object" this event means the coming into play, the playing out of the content of the tradition in its new possibilities of meaning and resonance, each newly expanded by the other recipient. >Hearing/Gadamer._____________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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