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The Inner Word in Gadamer's Hermeneutics

by John Arthos

  • Hardback
  • 520 pages
  • Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 2.7 cm

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This intellectual history and textual analysis of Hans-Georg Gadamer's famous and obscure theme of the verbum interius or 'inner word', serves as an indispensable guide to and reference for hermeneutic theory. John Arthos here gives a full exposition and interpretation of the medieval doctrine of the inner word, long one of the most challenging ideas in Gadamer's "Truth and Method". The scholastic idea of a word that is thought but not yet spoken serves Augustine as an analogy for the procession of the Trinity, serves Aquinas as the medium between divine ideas and human expression, and serves Gadamer as an expression of the embodied nature of human language. Arthos offers a history of the idea of the inner word in ancient and medieval thought, its place in German philosophy, and its significance for probing the deepest implications of hermeneutic understanding. Arthos also provides a close reading of Gadamer's exegesis of the source texts of the doctrine of the inner word. He cross-references Gadamer's analyzes with the original texts and draws out their Heideggerian and Hegelian overtones.Through this close reading, Arthos deepens our understanding of the radical nature of Gadamer's thought, which not only calls upon the authority of tradition but also develops some of the profoundest insights of classical and Judaeo-Christian teaching about language.
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  • Author

    John Arthos

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    University of Notre Dame Press

  • Published

    July 2009

  • Weight

    795g

  • Page Count

    520

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 2.7 cm

  • ISBN

    9780268020347

  • ISBN-10

    0268020345

  • Eden Code

    1901694

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