The Cambridge Companion to GADAMER Edited by Robert J, Dostal Bryn Mavs College CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS‘The et Balding Tamgingon Sex, Cambs Uated Kegon “The Eber ling Cambege can 40, UK 40 Westar New ork ome, USA {7 Mlamstows Raa, Port lore, ay, Anta Reed Alacon abot Madr pun Dock Hose The Wateont Cope Town S00, South Ac pec ng [© Cambrdge Unite Pest 000 ‘Thishok in copmpe Subject oat exception ndtothe eves al elevan collect nig aemens ‘0 repccon ny part may take plas without ‘hewnten prison Of Combes Uninc ess. Fs plished oon ‘yefce ss Tramp Mees System 3GR2r ‘catalog cd oth bak alle fr the British Libary brary of Conares Catalog in abate Data ‘Tee Camo companiont Gaur eel y Raker) Dt Pm =|Camtndecompenions opin ncudsbiogaphilreletence sen aN osartoigy1 ISBNs romgrs pk Sioa tas Geom re Dal Raber ence 51 Say shah Tot coagtéopetack CONTENTS List of Contributors Abbreviations Introduction ROBERT J. DOSTAL Gadamer: The Man and His Work ROBERT J, DOSTAL Gadamer’s Basic Understanding of Understanding Getting it Right: Relativism, Re ism, and Tr Hermeneutics, Ethics, and Poliies ‘The Doing of the Thing Itself: Gadamer’s Hermeneutic Ontology of Language Gadameron the Human Scicnees Lytie as Paradigm: Hegel and the Speculative Instance of Poetry in Gadamer's Hermeneutics 1M. BAKER, TR page ix B 36 2 7 16 1438 Gadamer, the Hermeneutic Revolution, and Theology Hermeneutics in Practice: Gadamer ‘on Ancient Philosophy Gadamers Hegel Gadamer® Relation o Heide and Phenomenology nae RowERT ]. DOSTAL The Constellation of Hermeneuis,Crideal ‘Thon, and Deconstruction NICHARD J. aeansrelN Bibliogaph Index. na 167 nas 27 267 283 33 CONTRIBUTORS 1M. mAaKER teaches inthe Liberal Ars division atthe University of the Arts in Philadelphia. He has previously written on the 10 ‘mantic Iiteature of England and Europe, with special attention 10 the intersection of poetic discourse with the kindof longstanding philosophical issues addressed inthe present essay. He isin the pro ‘ess of revising a book-length study of Holderin: Recursive Poetics Holden and the Tradition RICHARD J. BERNSTEIN is Veta List professor of philosophy and chair, New School fo Socal Research, His books include the fllow- ing: Beyond Objectivism and Relativism, The New Constellation Hannah Arend and the Jewish Question, and Freud and the Legacy ‘of Moses. Hes cureently working on a book dealing with conception ‘of evil in modern thought ROBERT J. DOSTAL is the Rufus M. Jones professor of philosophy nd provost at Bryn Maver College. He is co-editor of Phenomenol ‘ogy on Kant, German Idealism, Hermeneutics and Logi. He has published numerous articles an the German philosophical tradition Including essays on Kant, Hesdegger, Arendt, and Gadamer. GOwrER FLCAL is professor of philosophy at the University of ‘Tubingen. Hei the author of Theadoe W Adorno Das Naturseione als spekulatve Gedankenfigur (1977 Martin Heideyger: Phan ‘menologie der Freiheit 988/199} Das Untierund die Liebe Sieben platonische Essays (1991], Martin Heidegger zur Einfubrung (1992) Fr eine Philosophie von Freiheit und Stet (1994), Der Sin des Verstehens,i1996, and Nietzsche (19991