Event of Meaning in Gadamers Hermeneutics

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.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Occasionality 2. Ideality 3. Interpreting Correctly 4. Originalism and the Fusion of Horizons 5. Aspects of Being 6. Essences 7. The Task of Philosophy

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Carlo DaVia, Carlo (Loyola Marymount University Davia, Greg Lynch
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 27.06.2025
• EAN: 9781032249933
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3224993-3
• No. of pages: 252
• Series: Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / General, PHILOSOPHY / Hermeneutics, Christianity, Western philosophy from c 1800, Semantics, discourse analysis, stylistics, Criticism and exegesis of sacred texts, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -, Semantics, discourse analysis, etc, Biblical exegesis & hermeneutics