Truth and method
By: Hans-Georg Gadamer ; translated, William Glen-Doepel ; [translation edited by John Cumming and Garrett Barden].
Edition: 2d ed.
Publisher: Sheed and Ward
Published: 1979
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 552
Subjects: Humanities -- Methodology; Hermeneutics; Aesthetics
Notes: Translation of Wahrheit und Methode.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Corrections and revisions
pagenum: ix; title: Introduction
pagenum: xi; title: Foreword to the Second Edition
pagenum: xvi; label: First Part
title: The question of truth as it emerges in the experience of art; label: I
title: The transcending of the aesthetic dimension
pagenum: 5; label: 1
title: The significance of the humanist tradition for the human sciences
pagenum: 5; label: (a)
title: The problem of method
pagenum: 5; label: (b)
title: Leading humanistic concepts
pagenum: 10; label: (i)
title: Bildung (culture)
pagenum: 10; label: (ii)
title: Sensus communis
pagenum: 19; label: (iii)
title: Judgment
pagenum: 29; label: (iv)
title: Taste
pagenum: 33; label: 2
title: The subjectivisation of aesthetics in the Kantian critique
pagenum: 39; label: (a)
title: Kant's doctrine of taste and genius
pagenum: 39; label: (i)
title: The transcendental quality of taste; label: (ii)
title: The doctrine of free and dependent beauty
pagenum: 42; label: (iii)
title: The doctrine of the ideal of beauty
pagenum: 44; label: (iv)
title: The concern for the beautiful in nature and in art
pagenum: 46; label: (v)
title: The relation between taste and genius
pagenum: 49; label: (b)
title: The aesthetics of genius and the concept of experience
pagenum: 51; label: (i)
title: The dominance of the idea of genius
pagenum: 51; label: (ii)
title: On the history of the word Erlebnis (experience)
pagenum: 55; label: (iii)
title: The concept of Erlebnis
pagenum: 58; label: (iv)
title: The limits of the art of experience and the rehabilitation of allegory
pagenum: 63; label: 3
title: The retrieval of the question of artistic truth
pagenum: 73; label: (a)
title: That aesthetic cultivation is open to question
pagenum: 73; label: (b)
title: Critique of the abstraction of aesthetic consciousness
pagenum: 80; label: II
title: The ontology of the work of art and its hermeneutical significance
pagenum: 91; label: 1
title: Play as the clue to ontological explanation
pagenum: 91; label: (a)
title: The concept of play
pagenum: 91; label: (b)
title: Transformation into structure and total mediation
pagenum: 99; label: (c)
title: The temporality of the aesthetic
pagenum: 108; label: (d)
title: The example of the tragic
pagenum: 114; label: 2
title: Aesthetic and hermeneutical consequences
pagenum: 119; label: (a)
title: The ontological value of the picture
pagenum: 119; label: (b)
title: The ontological foundation of the occasional and the decorative
pagenum: 127; label: (c)
title: The borderline position of literature
pagenum: 142; label: (d)
title: Reconstruction and integration as hermeneutical tasks
pagenum: 146; label: Second Part
title: The extension of the question of truth to understanding in the human sciences; label: I
title: Historical preparation
pagenum: 153; label: 1
title: The questionableness of romantic hermeneutics and of its application to the study of history
pagenum: 153; label: (a)
title: The change in hermeneutics between the Enlightenment and Romanticism
pagenum: 153; label: (i)
title: The pre-history of romantic hermeneutics
pagenum: 153; label: (ii)
title: Schleiermacher's project of a universal hermeneutics
pagenum: 162; label: (b)
title: The connection between the historical school and romantic hermeneutics
pagenum: 173; label: (i)
title: Rejection of the ideal of universal history
pagenum: 173; label: (ii)
title: Ranke's historical world-view
pagenum: 179; label: (iii)
title: The relation between historical study and hermeneutics in J. G. Droysen
pagenum: 187; label: 2
title: Dilthey's entanglement in the impasses of historicism
pagenum: 192; label: (a)
title: From the epistemological problem of history to the hermeneutical foundation of the human sciences
pagenum: 192; label: (b)
title: The conflict between science and life-philosophy in Dilthey's analysis of historical consciousness
pagenum: 204; label: 3
title: The overcoming of the epistemological problem through phenomenological research
pagenum: 214; title: The concept of life in Husserl and Graf Yorck
pagenum: 214; title: Heidegger's project of a hermeneutical phenomenology
pagenum: 225; label: II
title: Foundations of a theory of hermeneutical experience
pagenum: 235; label: 1
title: The elevation of the historicality of understanding to the status of hermeneutical principle
pagenum: 235; label: (a)
title: The hermeneutic circle and the problem of prejudices
pagenum: 235; label: (i)
title: Heidegger's disclosure of the fore-structure of understanding
pagenum: 235; label: (ii)
title: The discrediting of prejudice by the Enlightenment
pagenum: 241; label: (b)
title: Prejudices as conditions of understanding
pagenum: 245; label: (i)
title: The rehabilitation of authority and tradition
pagenum: 245; label: (ii)
title: The classical example
pagenum: 253; label: (iii)
title: The hermeneutic significance of temporal distance
pagenum: 258; label: (iv)
title: The principle of effective-history
pagenum: 267; label: 2
title: The rediscovery of the fundamental hermeneutic problem
pagenum: 274; label: (a)
title: The hermeneutic problem of application
pagenum: 274; label: (b)
title: The hermeneutic relevance of Aristotle
pagenum: 278; label: (c)
title: The exemplary significance of legal hermeneutics
pagenum: 289; label: 3
title: Analysis of effective-historical consciousness
pagenum: 305; label: (a)
title: The limitations of reflective philosophy
pagenum: 305; label: (b)
title: The concept of experience and the essence of the hermeneutical experience
pagenum: 310; label: (c)
title: The hermeneutical priority of the question
pagenum: 325; label: (i)
title: The model of the Platonic dialectic
pagenum: 325; label: (ii)
title: The logic of question and answer
pagenum: 333; label: Third Part
title: The ontological shift of hermeneutics guided by language; label: 1
title: Language as the medium of hermeneutical experience
pagenum: 345; label: (a)
title: Language as determination of the hermeneutic object
pagenum: 351; label: (b)
title: Language as determination of the hermeneutic act
pagenum: 357; label: 2
title: The emergence of the concept of language in the history of Western thought
pagenum: 366; label: (a)
title: Language and logos
pagenum: 366; label: (b)
title: Language and verbum
pagenum: 378; label: (c)
title: Language and concept formation
pagenum: 387; label: 3
title: Language as horizon of a hermeneutic ontology
pagenum: 397; label: (a)
title: Language as experience of the world
pagenum: 397; label: (b)
title: The centre of language and its speculative structure
pagenum: 414; label: (c)
title: The universal aspect of hermeneutics
pagenum: 431; title: Appendices I to VI
pagenum: 449; title: Supplements I and II
pagenum: 460; title: Hermeneutics and historicism
pagenum: 460; title: To what extent does language preform thought?
pagenum: 491; title: Notes
pagenum: 499; title: Page correlation
pagenum: 538; title: German originals of key terms
pagenum: 539; title: Indexes
pagenum: 541