Gadamer on Tradition - Historical Context and the Limits of Reflection

Anders Odenstedt received a PhD in Philosophy at Umeå University in Sweden in 2001. He is currently a Senior Lecturer in philosophy at the Department of Business Administration, Technology and Social Sciences at Luleå University of Technology in Sweden, and also teaches aesthetics at the Academy of Fine Arts in Umeå. Odenstedt's research concerns German phenomenology and hermeneutics, aesthetics and the history of philosophy.

• Chapter 1: Art, History and the Decline of Tradition.-Chapter 2: History as Conversation Versus History as Science: Gadamer and Dilthey.- Chapter 3: Forms of Reflection.- Chapter 4: Context-Dependence Its Nature and Scope.- Chapter 5: Gadamer and Hegel on Bildung.- Chapter 6: Being a Child of One s Time: Gadamer and Hegel on  Thought and Historical Context.