پيوندهاي امر نمادين و محاكات در آراء هانس گئورگ گادامر

The connection of the symbolic and mimesis in the nations of Hans-Georg Gadamer

Hans- Georg Gadamer, the famous German philosopher of our time, believes that the experience of a work of art is a meaningful experience. To shed light on this experience, he focuses on the concepts of the symbolic and mimesis as the well as the relation between them. He believes that symbols consists is a metaphysical connection between the visible and invisible; the inseparability of visible appearance and the meaning of invisible significance. From his perspective a symbol represents the symbolized and its meaning should not be searched outside of it; but in Gadamerian words, the meaning of a symbol, like the meaning of the artwork lies in the fact that it is there. This attitude not only establishes a link between the work of art and another concept, i.e. mimesis but also implies its existential unique nature. Gadamer has barrowed the concept of mimesis from antiquity to and has considered its original nature to be recognition which to him means understanding and cognizing something as something that has already been seen. This refers to uniqueness of artistic work and its experience. Artistic work cannot simply thought as a bearer of meaning because if it is just a bearer, artistic work changes into a replaceable concept which while human experience convinces indicates that human begins are particularly keen on artwork due to its irreplaceable and unique nature. Moreover; the special meaning of the work of art is related to the human being and their experience. The sensuous of the work of art and being confronting by it, without a doubt, is an encounter with the existential human nature.