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  • 4 - Philosophical Hermeneutics, Language, and the Communicative Event

  • Edited by Robert Dostal, Bryn Mawr College, Pennsylvania
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Gadamer
    Published online:
    29 July 2021
    Print publication:
    12 August 2021, pp 93-116

  • Summary

    Gadamer’s hermeneutics is concerned with the experience of understanding that takes place in living language. Living language is a matter of conversation and dialogue. Conversation and dialogue always take place in a living language within the historical context of a tradition. Gadamer’s hermeneutics challenges philosophy’s usual focus on the logic of statements. This is a profoundly Socratic-Platonic idea. The world is presented in language as a communicative event which is dialogical. The dialectic of the word in hermeneutics has a speculative structure.