Unfinished Worlds

Nicholas Davey did not write a book on Gadamer; he wrote about the question: how to look at art, how art changes our understanding of the world and ourselves. After Davey’s clear writing the reader will see how Gadamer changed our philosophy of art based on phenomenological hermeneutics. -- Ben Vedder, Radboud University Nijmegen
Long before it became fashionable to talk of relational aesthetics, Gadamer presented art as an encounter of the most fundamental kind. With Unfinished Worlds, Davey has not only given us the first monograph in English on Gadamer’s hermeneutical aesthetics, but also made a compelling case for the importance of Gadamer to our understanding of the structures that give rise to art and human experience. -- Clive Cazeaux, Cardiff Metropolitan University
In this excellent work, Nicholas Davey gives a superlatively clear, sharp-edged, and analytically precise account of Gadamer's hermeneutic aesthetics, which makes clear both the capacity of Gadamer's thought to meet stringent philosophical demands and its distinctive appeal as an approach within aesthetics. A more engaging and persuasive account could not be asked for. -- Sebastian Gardner, University College London