The Event of Meaning in Gadamer’s Hermeneutics

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Carlo DaVia (Loyola Marymount University, USA) Greg Lynch (North Central College, USA)

The Event of Meaning in Gadamer’s Hermeneutics

Carlo DaVia (Loyola Marymount University, USA), Greg Lynch (North Central College, USA)

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English

Routledge
06 February 2024

Philosophy of language; Philosophy; Christianity; History of ideas

Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy

This book presents the first detailed treatment of Gadamer’s account of the nature of meaning. It argues both that this account is philosophically valuable in its own right and that understanding it sheds new light on his wider hermeneutical project.

Whereas philosophers have typically thought of meanings as belonging to a special class of objects, the central claim of Gadamer’s view is that meanings are events. Instead of a pre-existing content that we must unearth through our interpretive efforts, for Gadamer the meaning of a text is what happens when we encounter it in the appropriate way. In events of meaning the world makes itself intelligibly present to us in a manner that is uniquely and irreducibly bound up with the concrete situation in which we find ourselves. When we recognize that Gadamer thinks of meaning in this way, we are better positioned to appreciate what his wider views amount to and how they hang together. Gadamer’s accounts of interpretive normativity, the aspectival character of understanding, and the nature of essences, for example, snap into more vivid relief when we see them as outgrowths of his underlying conception of meanings as events.

The Event of Meaning in Gadamer’s Hermeneutics will especially appeal to researchers and advanced students working in hermeneutics, phenomenology, and the philosophy of language. More broadly it will be of interest to humanities teachers and researchers concerned with the question of how texts from distant cultures can be relevant to readers here and now.

By: Carlo DaVia (Loyola Marymount University USA), Greg Lynch (North Central College, USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 625g
ISBN: 9781032247984
ISBN 10: 1032247983
Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy
Pages: 252
Publication Date: 06 February 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Carlo DaVia is a Lecturer in Latin and Classical Studies at the University of California, Riverside, as well as an Instructor at the CUNY Latin/Greek Institute. He has published articles in a number of venues, including the Journal of the History of Philosophy, European Journal of Philosophy, and the Review of Metaphysics. Greg Lynch is Associate Professor of Philosophy at North Central College in Naperville, Illinois. He is co-editor (with Cynthia Nielsen) of Gadamer’s Truth and Method: A Polyphonic Commentary and he has published essays in a range of venues, including Ergo, Philosophical Investigations, Acta Analytica, and The Southern Journal of Philosophy.

Reviews for The Event of Meaning in Gadamer’s Hermeneutics

"""By using the lens of the event of meaning, DaVia and Lynch revive the legacy of Gadamer’s hermeneutics and show Gadamer in a new light, opening up new encounters with his work from both continental and analytic philosophical approaches to language, meaning, and interpretation."" Gert-Jan van der Heiden, Radboud University, The Netherlands"