This thinker wrote about the poet Paul Celan in the essay "Who Am I and Who are You?" He investigated the art of medicine in The Enigma of Health Care, while his first important book focused on Plato's dialectical ethics. In another work, this author explored the ability of art to transport the reader or viewer from ordinary time to "fulfilled" or "autonomous" time, an idea that relates to the subtitular concept of art as "festival." That essay, which further posits art as "play" and as "symbol," is entitled "The Relevance of the Beautiful." His most famous work, which criticizes Wilhelm Dilthey for his "entanglement in the aporias of historicism" and which led to various debates with Jurgen Habermas, describes the process of the "fusion of horizons" and argues for the importance of "histo
This thinker wrote about the poet Paul Celan in the essay "Who Am I and Who are You?" He investigated the art of medicine in The Enigma of Health Care, while his first important book focused on Plato's dialectical ethics. In another work, this author explored the ability of art to transport the reader or viewer from ordinary time to "fulfilled" or "autonomous" time, an idea that relates to the subtitular concept of art as "festival." That essay, which further posits art as "play" and as "symbol," is entitled "The Relevance of the Beautiful." His most famous work, which criticizes Wilhelm Dilthey for his "entanglement in the aporias of historicism" and which led to various debates with Jurgen Habermas, describes the process of the "fusion of horizons" and argues for the importance of "historically-effected consciousness" in understanding and interpreting texts. For 10 points, identify this German developer of a philosophical hermeneutics, whose magnum opus is Truth and Method.
This thinker wrote about the poet Paul Celan in the essay "Who Am I and Who are You?"
Hans-Georg Gadamer