Competition and cooperation |
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| Authors: | John Arthos |
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| Institution: | Assistant professor of Communication , Denison University , Granville, OH, 43023 E-mail: arthos@denison.edu |
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| Abstract: | Hans‐Georg Gadamer's theory of human solidarity in the word is often misunderstood in the secondary literature, because the preeminent role he gives to communication is misconstrued. What Gadamer attempts in placing dialogue at the center of a communal ontology is something very difficult and important. He weights communal identity neither towards subjective individualism nor any kind of relational system, but in the creative and uncompleted intermedium of conversation. The priority Gadamer gives to the event of dialogue as the engine of unexpressed human identity is the pivot of his entire hermeneutic enterprise. The ontological preeminence of the unfinished “conversation that we are”; has implications for the theory of communication yet to be seized upon and worked out. |
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