Hermeneutics and historical consciousness : an appraisal of the contribution of Hans-Georg Gadamer

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dc.contributor.authorVan Niekerk, Anton A.
dc.date.accessioned2011-05-15T16:02:31Z
dc.date.available2011-05-15T16:02:31Z
dc.date.issued2002
dc.descriptionThe original publication is available at http://www.ajol.info/index.php/sajpem/indexen_ZA
dc.description.abstractIn this introductory article to the volume of the South African Journal of Philosophy in tribute of Hans-Georg Gadamer, the author, first, makes a few remarks about the nature of hermeneutics and Gadamer's views on the universality of the hermeneutical experience. This universality is, in particular, explained from the perspective of the "linguistic turn" in Gadamer's thought. Secondly, there is a brief discussion of certain particular aspects of Gadamer's contribution. Aspects of that contribution that are emphasized are: Gadamer's reevaluation of prejudice, authority and tradition, his idea of "Wirkungs-geschichte", his idea of meaning as a process rather than a given entity, his analogy between game-playing and the interpretation of art, and his dialogical conception of interpretation. The author concludes by developing his own estimate of the main thrust of Gadamer's contribution. This contribution consists of the way in which Gadamer's thought, on the one hand, represents a demonstration and embodiment of the kind of historical consciousness so typical of our times, but, on the other hand, also accomplishes this exemplification of historical consciousness while imaginatively avoiding the kind of relativistic historicism so typical of many other manifestations of the same trend.en_ZA
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dc.format.extentp. 229-241
dc.identifier.citationVan Niekerk, A. A. 2002. Hermeneutics and historical consciousness: An appraisal of the contribution of Hans-Georg Gadamer. S. Afr. J. Philos. Vol.21(4) 2002: 228-241, doi:10.4314/sajpem.v21i4.31349 .en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0258 0136
dc.identifier.otherdoi:10.4314/sajpem.v21i4.31349
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/12504
dc.publisherAfrican Journals Online -- AJOLen_ZA
dc.rights.holderPhilosophical Society of South Africaen_ZA
dc.subjectGadamer, Hans Georg,1900- -- Contributions in hermeneuticsen_ZA
dc.subjectHermeneutics (theory of interpretation)en_ZA
dc.titleHermeneutics and historical consciousness : an appraisal of the contribution of Hans-Georg Gadameren_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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