THE HERMENEUTICS OF PLAY AND VIRTUALIZATION OF THE WORLD THROUGH THE ART IN GADAMER’S WORKS Cover Image

ГЕРМЕНЕВТИКА ИГРЫ И ВИРТУАЛИЗАЦИЯ МИРА ПОСРЕДСТВОМ ИГРЫ В РАБОТАХ Х.-Г. ГАДАМЕРА
THE HERMENEUTICS OF PLAY AND VIRTUALIZATION OF THE WORLD THROUGH THE ART IN GADAMER’S WORKS

Author(s): Pavel Barkouski
Subject(s): Hermeneutics
Published by: Издательство Санкт-Петербургского государственного университета
Keywords: hermeneutics; the work of art; play; game; Gadamer; play ontology; language; culture;

Summary/Abstract: The article concerns the significance of the semantic connective of understanding and playing in Gadamer’s hermeneutical analysis of the experience of art. In the spotlight is a question of constructing of imaginary (virtual) worlds as a play-based reality of understanding. It argues the appeal to the experience of art as a paradigmatic subject of hermeneutical work and emphasizes the importance of understanding of such experience as a special kind of play that takes us to the ontology plane, as opposed to the classic aesthetic view on this subject. Along with the explication of a general idea of the play in Gadamer’s hermeneutics, it also examines the main features of the artistic game itself, turning it into a multidimensional being of a special kind and a zone of gaining human freedom. The problematization of language also reveals it as the medium for the development of the artistic play and understanding,and the ethical aspects of the hermeneutic dialogue in the ongoing game is a theme of a special interest here too. The author develops his theoretical considerations based on comparative hermeneutic analysis of Hölderlin’s verses in the works of M. Heidegger and G. Gadamer, which reveals the diversity and non-linearity of our interpretation of culture, the ability to see in it an inexhaustible source of new meanings and associative connections as a result of a play of art and its understanding.

  • Issue Year: 9/2020
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 15-43
  • Page Count: 29
  • Language: Russian