truth and method
this is gadamers magnum opus
reading the bloomsbury edition, tuesday seminars
vocab
bildung translated as culture or cultivation, gadamer defines it as “the properly human way of developing one’s natural talents and capacities.” → to him, culture is bourgeois domination.
bild - “form” or “image”, more particularly “picture”. so:
Urbild → original
Vorbild → model
Abbild → copy
Gebilde → structure
Einbildungskraft → imagination, this can not be reproduced in english.
Darstellung: implies that something is immediately present.
Erlebnis, “experiences” residue of moments lived in their immediacy, artworks begin in “experiences” but rises above them. gadamer uses this version of the word, experience here is not isolated moments but an ongoing thing. plural experiences
Mitte: “middle ground” the place where understanding takes place
neologism: new meaning added to an existing word
Vermittlung: “total mediation” but sometimes “communication”
namedrops
Kant → line of aesthetics derives from him.
part where I yap
gadamer: art is temporary. artwork from histories ago are perceived as immediately present.
in plays, we do not express ourselves, the game presents itself.
the tie between original and picture is never broken, its not a mimicry (if thats a word) or a displacement of reality.
performing arts are not much different than pictorial art (fundamentally)
when something is beautiful, it “shines”, its immediately visible.