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The Inner Word in Gadamer's Hermeneutics

The Inner Word in Gadamer's Hermeneutics

Arthos, John

Hardcover

Philosophy

ISBN10: 0268020345
ISBN13: 9780268020347
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: Jul 30 2009
Pages: 480
Weight: 1.75
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.30 Depth: 9.20
Language: English

This intellectual history and textual analysis of Hans-Georg Gadamer's famous and obscure theme of the verbum interius, or inner word, serves as an indispensable guide to and reference for hermeneutic theory. John Arthos here gives a full exposition and interpretation of the medieval doctrine of the inner word, long one of the most challenging ideas in Gadamer's Truth and Method. The scholastic idea of a word that is thought but not yet spoken served Augustine as an analogy for the procession of the Trinity, served Aquinas as the medium between divine ideas and human expression, and serves Gadamer as an expression of the embodied nature of human language. Arthos offers a history of the idea of the inner word in ancient and medieval thought, its place in German philosophy, and its significance for probing the deepest implications of hermeneutic understanding.

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