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Truth and Method: The Arguments Mapped.

A Reader’s Companion to Gadamer’s Five Chapters. Follow 189 numbered Toulmin-model argument maps through the five chapters of Truth and Method, with connective essays, chapter assessments, dependency structures, a glossary, and a linked index. See what supports each inference, what later claims depend on it, and where disagreement changes the argument.

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What the book is

A companion to close reading of Gadamer’s Truth and Method. Each of the book’s five chapters is worked through as a sequence of numbered argument maps built on the Toulmin model: for every inference, the claim, the grounds offered for it, the warrant that licenses the step and its backing, the qualifier Gadamer attaches, and the rebuttals he answers or leaves open. Dependency structures show what later chapters place on earlier ones.

Connective essays carry the reader from map to map, and each chapter closes with an assessment of where the argument holds, where it leans on what came before, and where a reasonable reader might part company with it. A glossary fixes the terms as Gadamer uses them, and a linked index ties every map to the passages it reads.

The free sample

Read the front matter and the complete first chapter, including all 19 Chapter 1 argument maps and its concluding assessment. The sample is an ordinary PDF and opens in your usual reader.

Read the free sample 46 pages · PDF · 1.3 MB

The full edition

The full edition runs to 341 pages and is forthcoming from the DG Humana Institute. Format, date, and ordering details will be posted on this page when they are settled. To be told when it is available, write to info@dghumana.com.

Hermeneutics in Common is the Institute’s community project to develop a revised hermeneutics: an annotated map from Gadamer through Habermas to Ricoeur, the Institute’s working position, and a forum open for responses. Both begin from Gadamer; this book is the close reading.