GADAMER’S UNDERSTANDING OF ART AS EVENT

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2025-8-25

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Şıvgın , Aslı Meryem

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This thesis explicates how understanding art is an “event” according to the hermeneutical phenomenology of Gadamer. After a brief introduction about event ontology, Heidegger’s understanding of Ereignis as happening of truth is elaborated due to its influence on Gadamer’s thinking. According to Gadamer, meaning has a movement accounting for the open-ended nature of understanding. Understanding artwork is an event, with its claim of truth that surpasses representational truth, aesthetic consciousness and the intention of its creator. Art has its truth with its element of participation as displayed in the concept of "play”; its unique temporality in line with its dimension of “festival”, and its excess of meaning as reflected by its relevance to the concept of “symbol”. According to Gadamer, art has a contemporaneous dimension that yields its different happening in each time and place, in each encounter in a dialogical mode of understanding. This work displays Gadamer’s understanding of art as event, in line with his thinking that unfolds in the manner of an event, with various cases from art history and examples from different from of art such as music and literature.

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Gadamer, Understanding, Art, Event, Truth

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/115525

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Graduate School of Social Sciences, Thesis