Truth over Method: Art Matters: An Inquiry In Dialogue With Hans-Georg Gadamer, Rabindranath Tagore, And Other Major Thinkers From East And West - Softcover

Roeder, Runhild

 
9783846594315: Truth over Method: Art Matters: An Inquiry In Dialogue With Hans-Georg Gadamer, Rabindranath Tagore, And Other Major Thinkers From East And West
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3846594318 ISBN 13: 9783846594315
Verlag: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

Following Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002), a leading thinker of the phenomenological tradition in continental philosophy, Runhild Roeder reclaims the ontological ground of truth in philosophy and the humanities from scientific reductionism. She sees art as closer to comprehensive truth than science, as it enables a fluid experience of self as inner dialogue, moving along with interpretation. Like it, hermeneutics eschews Enlightenment claims to “neutral” objectivity in favour of understanding as cultivated consciousness, open in all directions at once. Art shows the way beyond the methodological application of universals, taking seriously the particular case at hand and unafraid of exploring the play of truth and the truth of play. Acknowledging for the first time Gadamer’s debt to Sir Rabindranath Tagore for this insight, this study painstakingly walks the reader through his critique of Greek and German Idealism, as he vindicates humanist Bildung against the hegemony of epistemology in philosophy, the humanities and culture. Truth happens in hermeneutic interpretation as in art: in the rapture of creative consciousness, when the dancer can no longer be told apart from the dance.

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Reseña del editor

Following Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002), a leading thinker of the phenomenological tradition in continental philosophy, Runhild Roeder reclaims the ontological ground of truth in philosophy and the humanities from scientific reductionism. She sees art as closer to comprehensive truth than science, as it enables a fluid experience of self as inner dialogue, moving along with interpretation. Like it, hermeneutics eschews Enlightenment claims to "neutral" objectivity in favour of understanding as cultivated consciousness, open in all directions at once. Art shows the way beyond the methodological application of universals, taking seriously the particular case at hand and unafraid of exploring the play of truth and the truth of play. Acknowledging for the first time Gadamer's debt to Sir Rabindranath Tagore for this insight, this study painstakingly walks the reader through his critique of Greek and German Idealism, as he vindicates humanist Bildung against the hegemony of epistemology in philosophy, the humanities and culture. Truth happens in hermeneutic interpretation as in art: in the rapture of creative consciousness, when the dancer can no longer be told apart from the dance.

Biografía del autor

Runhild Roeder is an artist as well as a philosopher. Her paintings (see www.runhildroeder.com) have been shown in Europe, India and Canada. After a successful career as a gallerist in Montreal, she completed a Master’s (U. of Sherbrooke 2002) and a Doctorate (Laval U. 2006) in Philosophy, both on Gadamer, having known him personally in Heidelberg.

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Verlag
LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Erscheinungsdatum
2011
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
3846594318
ISBN 13 
9783846594315
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
220
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