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| Form and Content: Form is the structure or arrangement of something, while content is the substance or meaning of something. In other words, form is how something is said, while content is what is said. The form/content distinction is neglected today in favor of an inside/outside distinction. See also Form, Content, Conceptual content, Empirical content, Thoughts, Thought objects, Way of givenness, Intensions, Propositions, Meaning, Sense, Exterior/interior._____________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 Form and Content - Dictionary of Arguments
I 98 Form and Content/Art/Gadamer: The so-called representational content is not at all material, which waits for subsequent shaping, but is always already bound to the unity of form and meaning in the work of art. The expression "motif", which is common in the language of painters, can illustrate this. It can be representational as well as abstract - as a motif it is in any case ontologically immaterial (aneu hylés). >Art, >Artworks, >Inside/Outside. But this does not mean at all that it is meaningless. Rather, something is a motif in that it has a convincing unity and that the artist has to perform this unity as a unity of meaning, just as the recipient understands it as unity. Kant/Gadamer: In this context, Kant speaks, as is well known, of "aesthetic ideas" to which "much that cannot be named" is added.(1) >Form, >Content, >Aesthetics/Kant. 1.Kant, Kritik der Urteilskraft, S. 197_____________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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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-28