Ouvertures retrouvées le jeu et l'ontologie de l'art dans l'herméneutique de H.-G. Gadamer

The human sciences in the twentieth century experienced a crisis in relation to the post-Cartesian hegemony of scientific method and the privileged epistemology on which it was based. Perhaps the severest critic of this trend was Martin Heidegger, who sought to retrieve the primordial sense of the meaning of Being behind the tradition of Western metaphysics. Gadamer's quest for truth beyond the limitations of an epistemologically narrow scientific method continues this project of thought. In order to investigate one aspect of this major philosophical endeavour, this thesis looks in detail at Gadamer's reflections on play and art in Truth and Method and The Relevance of the Beautiful and Other Essays. I show how Gadamer's hermeneutic use of the metaphor of play for both philosophical discussion and the interaction of aesthetic perception between artist and audience suggests a basis for an ontology of art that is an opening out, or 'aperture', for the encounter with truth and truthfulness not only in the human sciences, but also in life."--Résumé abrégé par UM