On Gadamer's Hermeneutics and Its Transcendence of German Romanticism.

The different opinions on prejudice and judgment lead to the long-standing dispute between the Enlighteners and the Romanticists. Gadamer carrys on the pre-prejudiced theory of German romanticism, and endows it with a legal position. Gadamer's transcendence of German romanticism lies in adopting the ontological hermeneutics of existentialism and considering the issue of prejudice from a historical perspective. Based on his non-critical pre-comprehension, Gadamer criticizes the Enlightenment and the theory of judgment. His critical attitude towards the two brings about a logical paradox. Only by reexamining the epistemic rationality on the basis of practice, can people obtain the dialectical plan to resolve this paradox, the real cognition and the better way to exist. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]