Having read a large chunk of T&M, I have to agree with dubnik – it’s far more interesting than I thought.

The whole description of play is very interesting, and T&M is one of the more interesting texts on hermeneutics – Ricoeur is too opaque, and while Gadamer isn’t crystal clear, it’s certainly a lot more penetrable than Ricoeur.

I suspect I will have to rely on secondary sources to understand Gadamer for awhile—this will take concentrated reading time, which I might not have at the moment. What I have read thus far, however, is more interesting than I initially thought it might be…