Seeking a Mnemonic Turn: Interior Reflections in Gadamer's Post-Platonic Thought

• Authors: Jeffrey Sims
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This paper reflects on trajectories and pathways for philosophical hermeneutics, now, after the death of its founder, Hans-Georg Gadamer in 2002. More specifically, it challenges the notion that Gadamer's thought is simply tied to the linguistic turn of the 20th century. Instead, it considers the possibility that Gadamer's thinking makes for an implicit declaration of its own kind, calling for a mnemonic turn in modern philosophy and present day hermeneutics. Some reference will be made to both rationalist and empiricist models of inquiry insofar as Gadamer attempts to take philosophy beyond, for example, the Ur-grammar of Chomsky's linguistic theories, and into a world of post-Platonic memory.

Keywords

EN

memory; hermeneutics; science; anamnēsis; language

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Human Affairs
• Year: 2008
• Volume: 18
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 225-242

Dates

published

2008-12-01

online

2008-12-29

Contributors

author

Jeffrey Sims

• Department of Religion, Bishop's University, 2600 College St. Sherbrooke QC J1M 0C8, Canada

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/v10023-008-0021-5