Old English, Programming, and the Liberal Arts
Learn to Code 1: Does Everybody Really Need to Program? Learn to Code 2: The Many Reasons We Must Program (and the Few Why Not) It’s easy to forget, if…
Liberals, Labels, and Language Games: An Attempt Better to Respond to Bo Sanders
Last week Bo Sanders, over at Homebrewed Christianity, responded to an assertion (to which he did not link publicly, but that’s not entirely relevant to what I’m assaying here) that…
Blogging through Truth and Method post 13: The Development of the Concept of Language in the History of Western Thought (405-438)
You can generally count on me to look for the historical conditions that surround anything interesting, so Gadamer’s section of Truth and Method on the concept of language immediately pleased…
The Christian Humanist Podcast, Episode #107: Medieval 101
General Introduction – A busy summer – How we spent our summer vacations – Three big announcements The Middle Ages and Antiquity – The Decline and Fall of the Roman…
Blogging through Truth and Method post 12: Language as the Medium of Hermeneutic Experience (383-405)
Conversation is a funny thing; though we sometimes speak of the participants in a conversation “directing it,” in fact the conversation seems to direct itself, seems to be something experienced…
Blogging through Truth and Method post 11: Analysis of Historically Effected Consciousness (341-379)
The problem with which the previous section (307-341) of Truth and Method ends is truly compelling, if one breaks down the problem as a (simplified) syllogism: Hermeneutics, as a practice,…
Blogging through Truth and Method post 10: The Recovery of the Fundamental Hermeneutic Problem (307-341)
Once upon a time, hermeneutics conceived of understanding as involving two processes: understanding and interpretation, to which Pietism added a third, application. The great advance of the Romantics is…
Blogging through Truth and Method post 9: The Elevation of the Historicity of Understanding (265-307)
With the brief history of hermeneutical thinking in the book, Gadamer turns in this section of Truth and Method to constructing a hermeneutics that takes seriously the thrown-and-projected nature of…
Blogging through Truth and Method post 7: Dilthey's Entanglement in the Aporias of Historicism (218-241)
The section of Truth and Method that contains this chapter is called “Historical Preparations,” and one of the oddities of blogging about it is that I’m writing about an entire…
Blogging through Truth and Method post 5: Aesthetic and Hermeneutic Consequences (134-169)
When Michial and I read Being and Time back in 2009, the best thing about that book was that, through careful phenomenological examination, Heidegger gave me occasion to think carefully…
Blogging through Truth and Method, post 4: Play as the Clue to Ontological Explanation (101-134)
Gadamer’s analysis of aesthetics will be oriented around the notion of play, but he wants to liberate the concept from the subjective bearing that it finds in the work of…
Blogging through Truth and Method, post 3: Retrieving the Question of Artistic Truth (81-100)
Art has not always been a matter of “appearance” as opposed to the sciences’ “reality” or a matter of the “timeless” in any uncomplicated sense. This section of Truth and…
Blogging Through Truth and Method, Post 2: The Subjectivization of Aesthetics (42-81)
In the last few pages of the previous section, Gadamer dismissed the relegation of taste to the realm of aesthetics; in this section, he is going to critique two major…
Blogging Through Truth and Method post 1: Introduction and the Humanist Tradition (1-42)
Hans-Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method, Second Revised Edition Certain writers linger at the borders of certain disciplines, and I always feel somewhat bad for neglecting them. Thus in 2009 Michial…
50 Books for Aspiring Seminarians
I’ve often told people who aspire to graduate school in Biblical studies or theology that an English major might just serve them better than a Bachelor’s degree in ministry. Most…