Like old friends, authors come in and out of our lives and it is like not a day has passed. Prompted by a discussion with a colleague, I have been getting reacquainted with Hans-Georg Gadamer. Gadamer, who was the subject of the inaugural post of this blog, was a student of Martin Heidegger’s and was a leading light of philosophical hermeneutics. While we will circle back around to Gadamer, his importance to us at the moment is that he emphasized the necessity to converse with a text, opposed to the more common manipulation of a text.
Communication and Manipulation
Communication and Manipulation
Communication and Manipulation
Like old friends, authors come in and out of our lives and it is like not a day has passed. Prompted by a discussion with a colleague, I have been getting reacquainted with Hans-Georg Gadamer. Gadamer, who was the subject of the inaugural post of this blog, was a student of Martin Heidegger’s and was a leading light of philosophical hermeneutics. While we will circle back around to Gadamer, his importance to us at the moment is that he emphasized the necessity to converse with a text, opposed to the more common manipulation of a text.