Gadamer’s Ethics of Play: Hermeneutics and the Other

Gadamer’s Ethics of Play: Hermeneutics and the Other

Monica Vilhauer BA ’96 examines the ethical dimensions of understanding by focusing on Hans- Georg Gadamer’s concept of “play,” which depicts the dynamic, dialogical, interpretive process by which interlocutors come to grasp a common subject matter together.

Lexington Books, 2010. 166 pages. $60.