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- A brief version of this paper was first presented at the University of Nijmegen Conference “Hermeneutics and Metaphysics” in March 2007 and subsequently at the Annual Conference of the British Society for Phenomenology, “Hermeneutics: Contemporary Prospects”, University of Oxford, in April 2008. In December 2008, an expanded version was prepared for the University of Ostrava, the Czech Republic. An extended form of the argument will appear as “Truth, Method and Transcendence” in The Consequences of Hermeneutics, ed. Santiago Zabala, Evanston, Northwestern University Press, 2009.
- The Gadamer Reader, ed. Richard E. Palmer, Evanston, Illinois University Press, 2007, p.31
- Rudyard Kipling, “Recessional”, The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1953, p. 302.
- Rowan Williams, Lost Icons, Reflections on Cultural Bereavement, Edinburgh, T and T Clark, pp.160.
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- op cit, p. xxvi
- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will To Power, London, Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1968, § 1066.
- Gianni Vattimo, Arts Claim to Truth, p. 14.
- Gadamer comments in this respect: “In raising the question of being and thus reversing the whole direction of Western metaphysics, the true predecessor of Heidegger was neither Dilthey nor Husserl, then, but rather Nietzsche. Heidegger may have realised this only later; but in retrospect we can see that the aims already implicit in Being and Time were to raise Nietzsche's radical critique of “Platonism” to the level of the tradition he criticizes, to confront Western metaphysics on its own level and to recognize that transcendental inquiry is a consequence of modern subjectivism, and so overcome it: Truth and Method, London, Sheed and Ward, 1989, p.258.
- Ibid.
- ibid, p. xxxiii.
- The Gadamer Reader, p. 270.
- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Will to Power, § 675.
- The Gadamer Reader, p. 367.
- Rowan Williams, Dostoevsky, London, Continuum, 2008, p. x
- The Gadamer Reader, p. 367.
- Joel Weinsheimer, Gadamer's Truth and Method, New Haven, Yale University Press, 1985 p. 225
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- Carl Albrecht: “The Psychology of Mystical Consciousness”. p.360. cited by Hans Waldenfels, Absolute Nothingness, Foundations for a Buddhist-Christian Dialogue, New York, Paulist Press, 1980, p. 129
- Jean Luc Marion, “The end of metaphysics“ as a possibility”, in Religion after Metaphysics, London, Cambridge University Press, ed. Mark A Wrathall, 2003. p, 171
- Rainer Maria Rilke, The Poet of Poet's Guide to Life, New York, The Modern Library, 2005, pp.22–23.
- Ernst Bloch, The Spirit of Utopia, Stanford, Stanford University Press, 2000, p.3.
- The Gadamer Reader, p. 367.
- ibid, p. 137.
- The liturgical relevance of this position is not lost on contemporary theologians: see in particular Catherine Pickstock, After Writing, London, Blackwells, 1998. Chapter 6.
- David Cooper, op cit. p. 254.
- ibid
- Williams, Dostoevsky, p.12