POLITICAL DISCLOSURE OF GADAMER HERMENEUTICS BY COMPARISON WITH PAINTING GENRES

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2023-5-26

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Koç, Yusuf Tuna

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In my thesis, I intend to inspect on the relationship between art and truth in Gadamer hermeneutics. To do that in an original manner, I inspected two painting genres from different historical eras: 17th-century Dutch Vanitas still life painting and Kazimir Malevich’s Suprematism movement in the early 20th century. By highlighting the historical conditions and social changes these two movements were born, I brought focus to the truth works of these genres bear as a result of the social and individual experiences of the artists, the viewers, and the society encountering these changes. Hence, I reconceptualize the historical truth in Gadamer as the politically constructed world of the individual. Also, I emphasized the main conflicts on the modern history of philosophy in order to embody the conditions that required the use of hermeneutics in philosophy. I utilized the Sensus Communis and Erlebnis concepts in Gadamerian hermeneutics in order to assess the relationship between truth and art in a historical context. I benefited from social historians and art historians explaining the historical conditions and contexts of the genres I used as examples. Moreover, I referred to the respected names from hermeneutical studies and philosophers of the Hegelian school such as Heidegger in my thesis. Some of the concepts of Heidegger such as ready-at-hand and presence-at-hand were beneficial in hermeneutical reading of the paintings I subjected.

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Gadamer, Hermeneutics, Still Life, Common Sense, Experience

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/103244

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis