What's Left of Philosophy 50 | Hermeneutics and Utopia: From Hans-Georg Gadamer to Ernst Bloch (Part 1)
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Prejudice As Opening, Not Obstacle
- Gadamer argues our prejudices and traditions enable understanding rather than block it.
- Hermeneutic openness lets texts and others correct our assumptions without method-driven domination.
Method Risks Instrumentalizing Social Life
- Gadamer worries that methodological domination turns social life into instrumental ends.
- He sees hermeneutics as preserving pluralism and humility about our historical finitude.
Question Economic 'Laws' As Values
- Resist treating 'the economy' as an unquestionable object that dictates social ends.
- Ask how economic prescriptions shape plural values before accepting them as neutral facts.