Ethics, Aesthetics and the Historical Dimension of Language: The Selected Writings of Hans-Georg Gadamer

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Ethics, Aesthetics and the Historical Dimension of Language collects together Gadamer’s most important untranslated writings on ethics, aesthetics and language. With a substantial introduction by the editors exploring Gadamer’s ethical project and providing an overview of his aesthetic work, this book collects Gadamer’s writings on ancient ethics, including the moral philosophy of Aristotle, and on practical philosophy. In the final section, Gadamer’s writings on art and language are collected, including his examination of poetry, opera and painting among other art forms, and such topics as artistic language and translation. This important collection is a useful resource for scholars in philosophy, studying hermeneutics, continental, 20th-century and German philosophy. Cover Contents Acknowledgements Translators’ Preface Translators’ Introduction I Language and Ontology (by Pol Vandevelde) II The Situated Truth of a Work of Art (by Arun Iyer) Part
1 Ancient Ethics and Practical Philosophy 1 The Socratic Question and Aristotle (1990) 2 Aristotle’s Protrepticus in Consideration of the Historical Development of Aristotle’s Ethics (1928) 3 Heidegger and the Greeks (1990) 4 The Idea of Practical Philosophy (1983) 5 Reason and Practical Philosophy (1986) Part 2 Aesthetics 6 On Poetics and Hermeneutics (1968/1971) 7 The End of Art? From Hegel’s Doctrine of the Pastness of Art to the Anti-art of Today (1985) 8 The Place of Poetry in the System of Hegelian Aesthetics and the Question of the Pastness of Art (1986) 9 Conceptual Painting? On Arnold Gehlen’s Time-Pictures (1962) 10 On the Reading of Buildings and Paintings (1979) 11 Poetizing and Thinking as Reflected through Hölderlin’s Remembrance (1987) 12 Goethe and Mozart – the Problem of Opera (1991) 13 The Lynceus Tower Song in Goethe’s Faust (1982) 14 What Makes Goethe’s Language Natural? A Congress Contribution (1985) Part 3 The Dimension of Language 15 Language and Understanding (1970) 16 The Theory of History and Language (1987) 17 Of Teachers and Learners (1986) 18 Heidegger and Language (1990) 19 Homeland and Language (1992) 20 On the Way to Writing? (1983) 21 Voice and Language (1981) 22 Hearing – Seeing – Reading (1984) 23 Reading Is like Translating (1989) Notes Appendix: Glossary of German Terms Glossary of Ancient Greek Terms and Expressions Glossary of Other Foreign Terms and Expressions Works Cited by Gadamer Index of Names Index of Subjects