flâneur

Yooson Chan

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  • Thus, Gadamer focused on how the historical impact of a text, its “past,” colors our reading of it in the present. Strictly speaking, the reception history of a text, its “history of interpretation” (Auslegungsgeschichte), is not strictly the same as Wirkungsgeschichte, which focuses more on the history of the influence of the text
    In Layman’s Terms: Wirkungsgeschichte (1) | Kyle R. Hughes
  • This “effectual history” (Wirkungsgeschichte) of a text thus emphasizes how intervening tradition colors any attempts to interpret a text today.
    In Layman’s Terms: Wirkungsgeschichte (1) | Kyle R. Hughes
  • Recent conventional wisdom held that there was an “empty gap” between the world of the text and the world of today (in Bible study and preaching this is often alluded to in the phrase “bridging the gap”). The German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer, in his Truth and Method (1960), rejected this view and instead argued the gap is not empty but full of centuries of interpretation and history that color any attempts at interpretation today.
    In Layman’s Terms: Wirkungsgeschichte (1) | Kyle R. Hughes