Gadamer's Hermeneutical Aesthetics

This book offers a sustained scholarly analysis of Gadamer's reflections on art and our experience of art. It examines fundamental themes in Gadamer's hermeneutical aesthetics such as play, festival, symbol, contemporaneity, enactment, art's performative ontology, and hermeneutical identity.

Cynthia R. Nielsen is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Dallas, where she teaches courses in the areas of hermeneutics, aesthetics, contemporary continental philosophy, and the history of philosophy. She has two previously published books; a forthcoming co-edited book, Gadamer's Truth and Method: A Polyphonic Commentary (Rowman & Littlefield, March 2022); and her articles have appeared in journals such as Philosophy Today, Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy, Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, and Philosophy and Literature.

Introduction Chapter 1: Kantian Resonances and Dissonances Chapter 2: Hegelian Resonances and Dissonances (and A Heideggerian Coda) Chapter 3: Romare Bearden's Collages and Art's Address: On World De-fabrication and Reconfiguration Chapter 4: Banksy, Street Art, and A Benjaminian Coda Chapter 5: It's All About (Hermeneutical) Movement: Play, Leeway, Difference, and a Coda on Free Jazz