Preface Introduction 1. The nature of language: Two philosophical traditions 2. Gadamer and Wittgenstein: contrasts and commonalities 3. Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics and the ontology of language 4. Wittgenstein and the logics of language 5. 'What has history to do with me?': Language and/as historicality 6. A competition of interpretations: Wittgenstein and Gadamer read Augustine 7. Ordinary and extraordinary language: The hermeneutics of the poetic word Conclusion Bibliography.
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