John Arthos is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Denison University, USA.

John Arthos, the leading American interpreter of Gadamer, shows us why the traditional readings of Hans-Georg Gadamer on art are all mistaken. Gadamer’s Poetics is essential reading for anyone interested in what hermeneutics, in its fully radical form, has to tell us about art.

• Foreword List of Abbreviations 1. The Little Poetics 2. The ‘Work’ of Art 3. Clytemnestra Afterword: What is Gebilde? Notes Bibliography Index

John Arthos is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Denison University, USA.

John Arthos, the leading American interpreter of Gadamer, shows us why the traditional readings of Hans-Georg Gadamer on art are all mistaken. Gadamer’s Poetics is essential reading for anyone interested in what hermeneutics, in its fully radical form, has to tell us about art.

• Foreword List of Abbreviations 1. The Little Poetics 2. The ‘Work’ of Art 3. Clytemnestra Afterword: What is Gebilde? Notes Bibliography Index

John Arthos is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication at Denison University, USA.

John Arthos, the leading American interpreter of Gadamer, shows us why the traditional readings of Hans-Georg Gadamer on art are all mistaken. Gadamer’s Poetics is essential reading for anyone interested in what hermeneutics, in its fully radical form, has to tell us about art.

• Foreword List of Abbreviations 1. The Little Poetics 2. The ‘Work’ of Art 3. Clytemnestra Afterword: What is Gebilde? Notes Bibliography Index