This book discusses Gadamer's theory of context-dependence. Analytical and partly critical the
book also shows exegetical accuracy in the rendering of Gadamer's position. It explores the
following questions that Gadamer's theory of context-dependence tries to answer: in what way is
thought influenced by and thus dependent on its historical context? To what extent and in what
way is the individual able to become reflectively aware of and emancipate himself from this
dependence? The book takes Gadamer's wide interests into account e.g. issues relating to the
history of historiography and the nature of art and aesthetic experience. The problem of the
context-dependence of thought is prominent in contemporary philosophy including the fields of
structuralism post structuralism deconstruction certain forms of feminist philosophy and the
philosophy of science. In this sense the book discusses an issue with wide repercussions.
