Unfinished Worlds
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Hans-Georg Gadamer's poetics completely overturns the European aesthetic tradition. By concentrating on the experience of meaning, Unfinished Worlds shows how Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics transforms aesthetics into a mode of attentive practice. It has deep implications for all of the humanities, and how we can understand the meaning of poetry, art, literature, history and theology. His emphasis on participation promises an approach that will revolutionise aesthetic and hermeneutic practice, and gives us new ways to think about the cultural productivity and social legitimacy of the humanities.
Nicholas Davey was educated at the Universities of York, Sussex and Tübingen and has lectured at the City University London, the University of Manchester, the University of Wales Institute Cardiff and is presently Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dundee. His teaching and research interests lie in aesthetics and hermeneutics. He has published widely in the field of Continental Philosophy, aesthetics and hermeneutic theory. His last book, Unquiet Understanding, Gadamer and Philosophical Hermeneutics, (2006), was published with the State University Press of New York.