Gadamer's Hermeneutical Aesthetics

This book offers a sustained scholarly analysis of Gadamer’s reflections on art and our experience of art. It examines fundamental themes in Gadamer’s hermeneutical aesthetics such as play, festival, symbol, contemporaneity, enactment, art’s performative ontology, and hermeneutical identity.

The first two chapters focus on Gadamer’s critical appropriation and movement beyond Kantian and Hegelian a...