Hermeneutics in a broader horizon: Gadamer, Rorty, Davidson

Keane, Niall

Abstract

Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics has both influenced and converged with many important movements in contemporary philosophy, and it has done so primarily because of its reflections on language, its critique of foundational concepts of subjectivity and the absoluteness of the Enlightenment concept of rationality. What Habermas referred to as Gadamer’s “urbanization of the Heideggerian province” has led to the development of a thought model with numerous points of overlap with contemporary philosophers such as Jürgen Habermas, Karl-Otto Apel, Gianni Vattimo, Richard Rorty, Donald Davidson, Charles Taylor, John McDowell, and Richard Bernstein.

• Online Publication Date: May 1, 2006
• Publication Date: Aug 1, 2021
• Deposit Date: Mar 23, 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Pages: 374–405
• Series Title: Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
• Edition: 2nd
• Book Title: The Cambridge Companion to Gadamer
• Chapter Number: 15
• ISBN: 9781108830409
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/10502325
• Publisher URL: https://www.cambridge.org/gb/academic/subjects/philosophy/twentieth-century-philosophy/cambridge-companion-gadamer-2nd-edition?format=HB&isbn=9781108830409