Unfinished worlds : hermeneutics, aesthetics and gadamer /

By concentrating on the experience of meaning, Nicholas Davey shows how Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics transforms aesthetics into a mode of attentive practice. Gadamer's poetics has deep implications for all of the humanities, and how we can understand the meaning poetry, art, litera...

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Main Author: Davey, Nicholas, 1950- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2013]
Series:Crosscurrents (Edinburgh University Press)
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Summary:By concentrating on the experience of meaning, Nicholas Davey shows how Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics transforms aesthetics into a mode of attentive practice. Gadamer's poetics has deep implications for all of the humanities, and how we can understand the meaning poetry, art, literary, history and theology.
Physical Description:viii, 190 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-186) and index.
ISBN:9780748686223 (hbk.)
0748686223 (hbk.)