Hans-Georg Gadamer
Hans-Georg Gadamer
Hans-Georg Gadamerwas a German philosopher of the continental tradition, best known for his 1960 magnum opus Truth and Methodon hermeneutics...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth11 February 1900
CountryGermany
communication essence understanding
The process of translating comprises in its essence the whole secret of human understanding of the world and of social communication.
objectivity mirrors focus
The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
self long examination
Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
history doe
History does not belong to us; we belong to it.
religious art giving
A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint of art' can deliver. The Romantic desire for a new mythology... gives the artist and his task in the world the consciousness of a new consecration. He is something like a 'secular saviour' for his creations are expected to achieve on a small scale the propitiation of disaster for which an unsaved world hopes.
art play historical
For both art and the historical sciences are modes of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence comes directly into play.
opening-up essence possibility
The essence of the question is the opening up, and keeping open, of possibilities.
language
Nothing exists except through language.
philosophy real men
The hermeneutic consciousness, which must be awakened and kept awake, recognized that in the age of science philosophy's claim of superiority has something chimerical and unreal about it. But though the will of man is more than ever intensifying its criticism of what has gone before to the point of becoming utopian or eschatological consciousness, the hermeneutic consciousness seeks to confront that will with something of the truth of remembrance: with what is still and ever again real.
prejudice speak tradition
It is the tyranny of hidden prejudices that makes us deaf to what speaks to us in tradition.
understanding trying want
We cannot understand without wanting to understand, that is, without wanting to let something be said...Understanding does not occur when we try to intercept what someone wants to say to us by claiming we already know it.
language understood
Being that can be understood is language.