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Gadamer, Polanyi and Ways of Being Closed1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

Iain R. Torrance
Iain R. Torrance
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Department of Divinity with Religious StudiesUniversity of AberdeenAberdeen AB9 2UB ScotlandUK
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Extract

Hans-Georg Gadamer and Michael Polanyi are interestingly close and yet surprisingly different. I want to illustrate their closeness and divergence at certain crucial points, and then draw from the comparison certain wider implications for understanding authorial intention and textual autonomy on the one hand, and genre and the nature of a gospel on the other.

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Research Article
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Scottish Journal of Theology , Volume 46 , Issue 4 , November 1993 , pp. 497 - 506
Copyright
Copyright © Scottish Journal of Theology Ltd 1993

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References

2 Hans-Georg Gadamer's Truth and Method isnotoriously difficult. I gladly acknowledge the enlightenment found in Thiselton, A. C.: The Two Horizons (Paternoster, Exeter, 1980Google Scholar) and Warnke, Georgia: Gadamer: Hermeneutics, Tradition and Reason (Stanford University Press, Stanford, 1987)Google Scholar. In references which follow, I shall refer to the pagination of the second English edition (Truth and Method, Sheed and Ward, London, 1979 [abbreviated to TM])Google Scholar, and the second German edition (Wahrheit und Methode, Mohr, J. C. B., Tübingen, 1965 [abbreviated to WM])Google Scholar.

3 TM p. 95; WM p. 102.

4 TM p. 96; WM p. 102.

5 TM p. 96; WM p. 102.

6 TM p. 97; WM p. 102.

7 My italics. TM p. 97; WM p. 103. As Gadamer says: ‘The closed world of play lets down, as it were, one of its walls’ (TM p. 97; WM p. 103).

8 My italics. TM p. 98; WM p. 104: ‘Das Offensein zum Zuschauer hin macht vielmehr die Geschlossenheit des Spieles mit aus’.

9 TM p. 99; Verwandlung ins Gebilde (WM p. 105).

10 TM p. 99; WM p. 105.

11 TM p. 100; WM p. 107.

12 My italics. TM p. 101; WM p. 107.

13 TM p. 102f; WM p. 108f.

14 TM p. 103; WM p. 109.

15 TM p. 103; WM p. 109.

16 TM p. 107; WM p. 114.

17 TM p. 107; WM p. 114.

18 TM p. 107; WM p. 114.

19 TW p. 104; WM p. 111.

20 TM p. 105; WM p. 112.

21 TM p. 107; WM p. 114.

22 Warnke, op. cit. p. 64.

23 His classic discussion is chapter 4 of Personal Knowledge (Routledge and Kcgan Paul, London, 1958), pp. 49–65Google Scholar.

24 Cf. Meaning by Polanyi, Michael and Prosch, Harry (University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London, 1975), p. 97Google Scholar.

25 The Tacit Dimension (Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, 1966), p. 25Google Scholar.

26 The Tacit Dimension, op. cit., p. 18.

27 ibid. p. 85.

28 ibid. p. 85.

29 ibid. p. 86.

30 ibid. p. 102.

31 ibid. p. 102.

32 Cf. TM p. 107; WM p. 114.

33 Cf. TM p. 107; WM p. 114.

34 Cf. Meaning, op. cit., p. 104.