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TABLE OF CONTENTS Part One: Aesthetics and the Encounter with the Beautiful 1 Chapter One: Gadamer's Aesthetics 4 I. Kant, Heidegger, and the Subjectivization of Aesthetic Consciousness 5 A. Gadamer on Kant 6 B. Post-Kantian Subjectivization of Aesthetics 9 C. The Heideggerian Corrective 18 II. Play, Presentation, and Aesthetic Non- Differentiation 20 III. Play and Drama 30 IV. The Radiance Theory of Beauty and Gadamer's Aesthetics 34 Chapter Two: Balthasar's Aesthetics 42 I. The Rejection of Subjectivism in Aesthetic Fundamental Theology 44 A. The Cosmological Approach/ Classical Mediation 47 B. The Anthropological Approach/ Metaphysics of Spirit 49 II. The Subjective Pole: The Reception of Revelation 55 A. Light of Faith 55 B. Perception of the Form 58 C. Christian Attunement and Active Receptivity 64 D. Transformation 67 E. Dialogue as Mutual Ecstasis through Love 70 III. The Objective Pole: The Kenosis of God 71 IV. Theo-Drama as Dialogical Participation in the Revelation of God 80 A. The Relationship of Aesthetics and Theo- Drama 80 B. Dialogical Aspects of Theo-Drama 82 C. Cross and Resurrection as Center of Theo- Drama: The Overcoming of the Tragedy of Alienation Between God and Humanity 86 Chapter Three: A Comparative Analysis of the Aesthetic Approach of Gadamer and Balthasar 94 I. Rejection of Subjectivism as Starting Point for Aesthetics 95 II. The Dialogical Approach to Aesthetic Truth 99 III. Radiance Metaphysics 102 IV. Drama and Participative Transformation through the Aesthetic Encounter 106 V. Beauty, Metaphysics, and Revelation 109 VI. Conclusion 113 Part Two: Hermeneutics and the Encounter with Historical Tradition 115 Chapter Four: Gadamer's Hermeneutics 118 I. The Critique of Historical Consciousness and Methods of Interpretation 120 A. Schleiermacher and Author-Based Reconstruction 121 B. Dilthey and the Reconstruction of Historical Periods 126 II. Historical Situatedness and Gadamer's Hermeneutics 132 A. The Influence of Heidegger 132 B. Prejudice, Authority, Tradition, and the Classics 135 C. The Dialogue between Past and Present in Gadamer's Hermeneutics 142 i. The Hermeneutical Circle 142 ii. Wirkungsgeschichte Bewusstsein 145 iii. The Fusion of Horizons 150 D. The Relationship Between Present and Future 155 Chapter Five: Balthasar's Hermeneutics 161 I. The Critique of Methodological Approaches to the Interpretation of Revelation 161 II. Salvation History Part One: The Relationship of the Old Testament and Christ 170 III. Salvation History Part Two: Theodramatic Hermeneutics and the Situatedness of Present- Day Interpreters 177 A. The Situatedness of Theodramatic Hermeneutics 177 B. The Role of the Holy Spirit in Interpretation 181 C. The Question of Temporal Development within the Interpretation of Revelation 185 Chapter Six: A Comparative Analysis of the Hermeneutics of Gadamer and Balthasar 192 I. The Rejection of an Objective, Historicist Standpoint for Interpretation 193 II. The Dialogue Between Past and Present, and the Situatedness of the Interpreter 195 III. Differences in the "End" of History 199 IV. The Relationship Between Aesthetics and Hermeneutics 205 Part Three: Truth, Critique, and Dialogue 210 Chapter Seven: Truth, Critique, and Dialogue .......................................... 211 I. Elements of a Theory of Truth in an Aesthetic Hermeneutics 212 II. Potential Critiques of an Aesthetic Hermeneutics 217 A. Insufficient Emphasis on Historical Origins 217 1. Critique of Gadamer by Hirsch..... 217 2. Critique of Balthasar by Fitzmyer 221 3. A Partial Response to Historical Critiques of Aesthetic Hermeneutics 225 B. Insufficient Attention to Social Structures 227 1. Critique of Gadamer by Habermas... 228 2. Critique of Balthasar by O'Hanlon and Others 233 C. Inability to Adjudicate Conflicting Interpretations within the Tradition of an Interpretive Community 238 III. Dialogue and Pluralism in Aesthetic Hermeneutics 241 A. Balthasar's Criteria for Theological Dialogue 242 B. Potential Applications of Faith-Based Dialogue 246 1. Dialogue Between Different Methodologies 246 2. Dialogue with Humanism 248 3. Correlation Theology and Dialogue 250 4. Dialogue with other Religious Traditions 253 5. Dialogue within the Same Religious Tradition 255 Conclusion 257 Bibliography 260
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Aesthetics.
Hermeneutics.
Gadamer, Hans Georg, 1900-2002.
Balthasar, Hans Urs von, 1905-1988.