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Gadamer's Hermeneutics and the Art of Conversation Dermot Moron International Studies Gadamer's Hermeneutics in Hermeneutics and Phenomenology and the Art of Conversation edited by edited by Andrzej Wierciriski PD Dr. Dr. Andrzej Wierciriski (University of Freiburg) :D E: f<Jv)C)'/ Mot< A rV Volume 2 If . , I i () G c\ cf Cl nLe,. ct VI c{ rt c( S'S<:: (\-'( 6V'--/ rJ G1Z ;30Y"- f JV) fe. Q S 1A-J?~ ut, ; v I t~j C0V\O( ~ A f- W-ortPd ,. ff· +3 .- 94- 0-'1 wrv '5TER., LIT LIT .J-QII Contents INTRODUCTION The Primacy of Conversation in Philosophical Hermeneutics ANDRZEJ WIERCINSKJ § Gedruckt auf alterungsbestandigem Werkdruckpapier entsprechend I. HERiVIENEUTIC CONVERSATION ANSI Z3948 DIN ISO 9706 1. "Sprache ist Gesprach": Gadamer's Understanding of Language as Conversation ANDRZEJ WIERClf,rSKl 37 2. Hermeneutics and Inter-Cultural Dialogue FRED DALLMAYR 59 Bibliographic information published by the Deutscbe Natiooalbibliothek The Deutsche Nationalbibliothek lists this publication in !he Deutsche 3. Gadamer and Husserl on Horizon, Intersubjectivity, and the Life-World Nationalbibliografie; detailed bibliographic data are available in the Internet at DERMOT MORAN 73 http://dnb.d-nb.de. 4. Deriving Gadamer's Account ofIntersubjectivity from his Account of Dialogue ISBN 978-3-643-11172-2 DAVID VESSEY 95 5. Of Birth, Death, and Unfinished Conversations A catalogue record for this book is available from IDe British Library DENNIS SCHMIDT 107 6. Listening to Significant Others in the Process of Text Interpretation: An Instance of Applied Hermeneutics ©LIT VERLAG Dr. W Hopf Berlin 2011 ELIEHoLZER 115 Fresnostr.2 D-48159 Munster TeL +49 (0)251-620320 Fax +49 (0)251-9226099 7. Toward a Democratic Culture ofPhilosophicai Discourse: Gadamer's e-Mail: [email protected] http://www.1it-verlag.de Philosophical Hermeneutics as the Fundament for Intergenerational Dialogue BARBARA WEBER 127 Distribution: In Germany: LIT Verlag Fresnostr. 2, D-48159 MUnster 8. Meaning and Interpretation: Can Brandomian Scorekeepers be Tel. +49 (0) 2 51-620 32 22, Fax +49 (0) 2 51-922 6099. e-mail: [email protected] Gadamerian Hermeneuts? 157 In Austria: Medienlogistik Pichler-OBZ, e-mail: mlo@mediea-Jogistikat CRISTINA LAFONT In the UK: Global Book Marketing, e-mail: mo@centralbooksrom 9. Gadamer's Dialogical Imperative: Linking Socratic Dialogue to Aristotle's Phronesis In North America by: JOHNARTHOS 169 """"" + 1 (732) 445 - 2280 Transaction Publishers Fa.'t: + 1 (732) 445 - 3138 Rutgers University fOl'orders (U. S. only): 10. The Role of Prejudice in Gadamer's Understanding of Language Transaction Publishers 35 Berrue Circle !OIl free (888) 999 . 6778 as Dialogue New Brunswick (U.S.A.) aDd i..<.IndoD (U.K.) Piscataway. NJ 08854 • e-mail: [email protected] MARIA LUjSA PORTOCARRERO 177 5 Gadamer's Hermeneutics and (he Art of Conversatjon 3. GADAMER AND HUSSERL ON HORIZON, 1l>"TERSUBlECTWlTY, .-'c"D TIlE plea that "the future survival of humankind" may depend on our willingness to LIFE,WORLD engage dialogically with others on both the personal level and the level of larger Dermot -"doran human communities and cultures, The Marburg Beginning and the Promise of Phenomenology Hans-Georg Gadamer's manner of engaging with sedimented historical meaning and with the binding yet elusive character of tradition began during his early stu­ dies in Marburg, inspired primarily by Martin Heidegger, as well as by his encoun­ ter with the Marburg classicists, Paul Natorp and Paul Friedlander. In these fonna­ tive years, as Gadamer himself has acknowledged, he also had a fruitful enga­ gement with Edmund Husserl and the phenomenological movement. Indeed, he acknowledges the special importance phenomenology had for students at that time as the promise of a movement that would remain loyal to concrete lived experience and thereby challenge the prevailing Neo-Kantianism that prioritized somewhat arid and non-historical epistemological problems.1 Gadamer writes of having a certain expectation from Husserl's phenomenology during the early twenties: "We also lived in the expectation of a new philosophical orientation, which was particularly tied to the dark, magical word 'phenomenology.",2 Heidegger too has talked about that 'magic word' phenomenology; and in the twenties that term signified primarily the work of Husser I, Scheler, and their followers. What phenomenology promised to do was to go behind the accepted world of science and inquire into the foundations of the life-world. As Gadamer would later recall: But the phenomenological school [in the 1920'sJ had an even stronger impact by no longer sharing the Marburg School's orientation to the facts of the sciences as self-evident. It went behind scientific experience and the cate­ gorial analysis of its methods, and brought the natural experience of life­ that is, what the later Husserl named with the now famous expression, the "life-world"-into the foreground of its phenomenological investigation.3- Understandably, given his career-long focus on henneneutics and classical philosophy, Gadamer's engagement with Edmund Husser! has not been highlighted by commentators and certainly has not been given the same attention as Gadamer's life-­ long relationship with Heidegger(until the latter's death in 1976)' Indeed, Gadamer's I See Hans-Georg Gadamer, "Die Phanomenologische Bewegung," GW3: 105-146: English, "The Phenomenological Movement," in idem, Philosophical Hermeneulics. trans.._ ed. David Linge (Berkeley, Calif.: University of California Press, 1976), 130-181. + 2 See Hans-Georg Gadamer, "Reflections on My Philosophical Journey," in I..ev.is Eaaim Hahn, cd., The Philosophy a/Hans-Georg Gadamer, Library of Living Philosophers (~ 'k Open Court, 1997), 7. ,"i 3 See Hans-Georg Gadamer, "Martin Hcidegger and Marburg Tbeology (1964)...... '~ Gadamer, Philosophical Hermeneutics, 198-212, esp. 200. 4 See Walter's Lammi, "Gadamer's Debt to Husserl," in Anna-Teresa T~mi.eciecbi ~ Ana/ec/a Husserliana LXXI (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers,.2001).. J6}-jJ9_So:~ 72 Gadamer's Hermeneutics and the Art 0/ Conversation Dermot Moron. Gadamcr and Husserl on Horizon. ~1ty.~a~ embrace of hermeneutics of the Heideggerian kind (itself stemming from Dilthey) as kind of answers to the meaning of existence given the rnindk:ssde:sBlIilUiraa.ri; the primary path to historical understanding has been interpreted as a rejection of war. It is also true that Gadamer understood Husserlian pbeuomeDo6ogyti,a~: eidetic phenomenology of the descriptive kind practiced by Husserl (who was widely of intellectual pursuit ofthe essence or eidos, which, accordingly. couIdDe'\'U'~ seen as an opponent ofDilthey). Moreover, Gadamer was particularly influenced in his the 'uniqueness, finitude and historicity' of human Dasein, as he puts it in his 19S­ reading of the importance of hermeneutics by an important comparative study of the essay on the phenomenological movement.s Gadamer was dis:appoinred -­ time by Dilthey's student and son-in-law, Georg Miseh (1878-1965), entitled Life­ Husserl? s phenomenology, after so promising a start, effectively collapsed back irso Philosophy and Phenomenology: A Dispute Conceming the Diltheyan Tendency in a kind of Neo-Kantian idealism.9 It is certainly true that Husserl made his peao:: Heidegger and Husserl which appeared in 1930.5 Misch portrayed hermeneutics as with the Neo·Kantians and especially Rickert and Cassirer during his Frciburg more faithfully portraying life than Husserl's eidetic phenomenology and regards years. Nonetheless, Gadamer saw Husserl as an inspiring teacher attempting to Heidegger as having thought through to the end Dilthey's problematic. communicate the importance of phenomenology with exactitude, honesty and even As a consequence, there is a standard view, articulated, for instance, in Jean a missionary zeal. lO According to Gadamer's anecdote, Husserl's efforts to Grondin's otherwise excellent biography of Gadamcr, that Gadamer repudiated transcendentally ground phenomenology left him no time even to go to the theater, Husserl as an outdated professor from a previous generation-"a typical to listen to music or to enjoy poetry, as he confessed to Roman Ingarden!l! BUI Wilhelminian scholar with stiff collar and gold watch chain in the style of the time, Husserl did want to do philosophy genuinely and concretely and Gadamer was which reminded Gadamer of the world of his father.??6 Grondin contrasts HusserI's greatly drawn to this, admiring Hussed's attention to detail and 'craftsmanship.' and Heidegger's approach to phenomenology as follows: although he admits that, in 1923 when he sat in Husserl's lectures, as a recenti) graduated doctor of philosophy, he was really not up to the task of grappling \\-itt Only the term "phenomenology" was common to Husserl and Heidegger .. the depth and intricacies of HusserI's phenomenoiogy.12 Whereas Husserl represented a phenomenology of consciousness, strongly In fact, HusserI left a deeper mark on Gadamer than has been generall) reminiscent of idealism and modeled on pure. ideal. '\irtually Euclidean acknowledged, and, in this essay, I wantto show that Husserl's influence on Gadaroo science, Heideggcr proclaimed a phenomenology of historical Dasein that is much greater than is commonly realized. Moreover, Husserl's influence or swept Husserl's phenomenology of consciousness clean away.7 Gadamer grew, especially after Gadamer had read the Husserl' s Crisis ofthe Europem Sciences13 at some time during the nineteen fifties. It is noteworthy, therefore, thai On this all too common view Husserl was an ahistorical,
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