CFP: Gadamer Renaissance / Renaissance Gadamer

Paper proposals are invited for a prospective panel at the annual
conference of the Renaissance Society of America (RSA), New York
City, March 25-27, 2004, on the
intersection of Renaissance studies with the theories of Hans-Georg Gadamer.
Many Renaissance scholars remain in thrall to the hermeneutics of suspicion:
a resolution of the manifest art-object into its latent content. Yet many
aspects of the period's high culture appear to be more consistent with
Gadamer's hermeneutics of recognition: a drive toward the manifest object as
the fullest expression of truth-value. Of particular interest here is
Gadamer's aesthetic ontology, but discussions dealing with his
historiographic or other theories are also welcome. Period authorities might
include Cusanus, Ficino, Spenser, and others; papers are encouraged from
art-historical, historical, and literary disciplines.

Deadline: May 15th

Email proposals to James Dougal Fleming at: jflemingsfu.ca

Dr. James Dougal Fleming,
Assistant Professor of English,
Simon Fraser University,
(604) 291-4713

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