Gadamer on Tradition - Historical Context and the Limits of Reflection

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Gadamer on Tradition - Historical Context and the Limits of Reflection is written by Anders Odenstedt and published by Springer. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 331959558X (ISBN 10) and 9783319595580 (ISBN 13).

This book discusses Gadamer's theory of context-dependence. Analytical and partly critical, the book also shows exegetical accuracy in the rendering of Gadamer's position. It explores the following questions that Gadamer's theory of context-dependence tries to answer: in what way is thought influenced by and thus dependent on its historical context? To what extent and in what way is the individual able to become reflectively aware of and emancipate himself from this dependence? The book takes Gadamer's wide interests into account, e.g. issues relating to the history of historiography and the nature of art and aesthetic experience. The problem of the context-dependence of thought is prominent in contemporary philosophy, including the fields of structuralism, post structuralism, deconstruction, certain forms of feminist philosophy and the philosophy of science. In this sense, the book discusses an issue with wide repercussions.