The Way to Hermeneutic Dialectics

Author: He Weiping
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Publish Date: 2001-09-01
Features: The topic discussed in this book is one that has been neglected by academia and is combined with another even more obscure and almost "dead dog" subject: the dialectics of hermeneutics. The author seems to deliberately oppose the new and novel interests pursued by the Chinese, standing alone on the shore of the relentless tide of the times, contemplating deeply. However, those who have a slight understanding of the history of Western academia will not fail to recognize the originality and difficulty of this topic, nor fail to realize its significant importance for the direction of contemporary thought. The pioneering nature of this book lies in the author's intention not only to explore the role of dialectics in the formation of Gadamer's hermeneutics but also to explore the role of Gadamer's hermeneutics in shaping a new type of dialectics. The latter part of the book is the core of the author's key elaborated thoughts. Based on a logical clarification of the history of the formation and development of hermeneutics, the author provides an incisive analysis of the internal structural layers of Gadamer's hermeneutics. Using Gadamer's major work "Truth and Method" as a basis, he reveals the systematic structure of Gadamer's dialectics in depth from four levels: "hermeneutic circle," "experience and history," "I-you relationship," and "dialogue and language," proposing a series of original arguments.