Traditio - folytatás és árulás. Balassa Péter Gadamer-olvasatáról
Traditio - continuation and betrayal. Péter Balassa´s Gadamer interpretation

Summary/Abstract: In 1994 the recently deceased Péter Balassa gave a lecture on the opening chapter of Hans-Georg Gadamer´s Truth and Method. The lecture introduced subtle modifications on the interpretation of Gadamer´s concept of Bildung (paideia). The present study attempts to reiterate Péter Balassa´s questions by examining the history and the importance of adherence and divergence. If the concept of Bildung explained as some kind of retarded desire refers to the notion of work as being isolated from the self (in Péter Balassa´s interpretation: the act of sublimation), the question emerges whether it is possible to study the history of Bildung with the exclusion of the repressive tendency of sublimation. Another rightful question is, then, whether the 1994 lecture on paideia (as well as our present study) can be understood as the result of a sublimative endeavour? The interpretation of an interpretation enters into the history of a tradition: It carries on, translates, hands over, and betrays.

• Details
• Contents