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How do words and images function hermeneutically? How does hermeneutic practice work? Answering these questions and more, Nicholas Davey develops the hermeneutical foundations of creative practice. In doing so, he not only uncovers the significance of philosophical hermeneutics for the arts and the humanities, but defends the humanities as a whole from the current scepticism inspired by deconstruction and post-structuralism. Taking Gadamer'...

Hans-Georg Gadamer's poetics completely overturns the European aesthetic tradition. This full-length study in English of Gadamer's aesthetics draws on a significant proportion of Gadamer's latter essays on art and aesthetics. It explores the far-reaching consequences of Gadamer's hermeneutical critique of aesthetics.

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Argues that Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics merits a radical reappraisal.

In Unquiet Understanding, Nicholas Davey reappropriates the radical content of Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics to reveal that it offers a powerful critique of Nietzsche's philosophy of language, nihilism, and post-structuralist deconstructions of meaning. By critically engaging with the practical and ethical implications of philosophical hermeneutics, Davey asserts that the importance of philosophical hermeneutics resides in a formidable ...