Hans-Georg Gadamer Quote

We cannot understand without wanting to understand, that is, without wanting to let something be said. It would be an inadmissible abstraction to contend that we must first have achieved a contemporaneousness with the author or the original reader by means of a reconstruction of his historical horizon before we could begin to grasp the meaning of what is said. A kind of anticipation of meaning guides the effort to understand from the very beginning.


p. 101 - Aesthetics and Hermeneutics (1964)

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We cannot understand without wanting to understand, that is, without wanting to let something be said. It would be an inadmissible abstraction to...

We cannot understand without wanting to understand, that is, without wanting to let something be said. It would be an inadmissible abstraction to...

We cannot understand without wanting to understand, that is, without wanting to let something be said. It would be an inadmissible abstraction to...

We cannot understand without wanting to understand, that is, without wanting to let something be said. It would be an inadmissible abstraction to...