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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 relatingto 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. 

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-59558-0

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Introduction

Odenstedt Anders

1-31

Art, history, and the decline of tradition

Odenstedt Anders

33-62

History as conversation versus history as science

Odenstedt Anders

63-100

Forms of reflection

Odenstedt Anders

101-128

Context-dependence

Odenstedt Anders

129-152

Being a child of one's time

Odenstedt Anders

191-216

Conclusion

Odenstedt Anders

217-221