Truth and Method.

From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - Good and clean. - Gut und sauber. - Contents: Translators� Preface -- Introduction -- Foreword to the second edition -- PART I: The question of truth as it emerges in the experience of art -- I Transcending the aesthetic dimension -- 1 The significance of the humanist tradition for the human sciences -- (A) The problem of method -- (B) The guiding concepts of humanism -- (i) Bildung (culture) -- (ii) Sensus communis -- (iii) Judgment -- (iv) Taste -- 2 The subjectivization of aesthetics through the Kantian critique -- (A) Kant�s doctrine of taste and genius -- The transcendental distinctness of taste -- The doctrine of free and dependent beauty -- The doctrine of the ideal of beauty -- The interest aroused by natural and artistic beauty -- The relation between taste and genius -- The aesthetics of genius and the concept of experience (Erlebnis) -- The dominance of the concept of genius -- On the history of the word Erlebnis -- The concept of Erlebnis -- The limits of Erlebniskunst and the rehabilitation of allegory -- 3 Retrieving the question of artistic truth -- The dubiousness of the concept of aesthetic cultivation (Bildung) -- Critique of the abstraction inherent in aesthetic consciousness -- II The ontology of the work of art and its hermeneutic significance -- Play as the clue to ontological explanation -- The concept of play -- Transformation into structure and total mediation -- The temporality of the aesthetic -- The example of the tragic -- Aesthetic and hermeneutic consequences -- The ontological valence of the picture -- The ontological foundation of the occasional and the decorative -- The borderline position of literature -- Reconstruction and integration as hermeneutic tasks -- PART II: The extension of the question of truth to understanding in the human sciences -- I Historical preparation -- The questionableness of romantic hermeneutics and its application to the study of history -- The change in hermeneutics from the Enlightenment to romanticism -- The prehistory of romantic hermeneutics -- Schleiermacher�s project of a universal hermeneutics -- The connection between the historical school and romantic hermeneutics -- The dilemma involved in the ideal of universal history -- Ranke�s historical worldview -- The relation between historical study and hermeneutics in J. G. Droysen -- Dilthey�s entanglement in the aporias of historicism -- From the epistemological problem of history to the hermeneutic foundation of the human sciences -- The conflict between science and life-philosophy in Dilthey�s analysis of historical consciousness -- Overcoming the epistemological problem through phenomenological research -- The concept of life in Husserl and Count Yorck -- Heidegger�s project of a hermeneutic phenomenology -- II Elements of a theory of hermeneutic experience -- The elevation of the historicity of understanding to the status of a hermeneutic principle -- The hermeneutic circle and the problem of prejudices -- Heidegger�s disclosure of the fore-structure of understanding -- The discrediting of prejudice by the Enlightenment -- Prejudices as conditions of understanding -- The rehabilitation of authority and tradition -- The example of the classical -- The hermeneutic significance of temporal distance -- The principle of history of effect (Wirkungsgeschichte) -- The recovery of the fundamental hermeneutic problem -- The hermeneutic problem of application -- The hermeneutic relevance of Aristotle -- The exemplary significance of legal hermeneutics -- Analysis of historically effected consciousness -- The limitations of reflective philosophy -- The concept of experience (Erfahrung) and the essence of the hermeneutic experience -- The hermeneutic priority of the question -- The model of Platonic dialectic -- The logic of question and answer -- PART III: The ontological shift of hermeneutics guided by language -- Language as the medium of hermeneutic experience -- Language as determination of the hermeneutic object -- Language as determination of the hermeneutic act -- The development of the concept of language in the history of Western thought -- Language and logos -- Language and verbum -- Language and concept formation -- Language as horizon of a hermeneutic ontology -- (A) Language as experience of the world language as medium and its speculative structure (line universal aspect of hermeneutics. ISBN 9780826405852