Abstract
Readers of Art as Experience and Truth and Method might be struck by several elective affinities. 1 Beyond prurient interest, the value of a comparative analysis would consist in richer readings of Dewey and Gadamer in the light they mutually cast on each other's philosophy of experience. There is an antidote for cliches here. Reading Dewey through the lens of Truth and Method, we can read past the misconceptions that pragmatism is hostile to tradition and traditionary authority and that it is a version of scientism that exalts "technique" above phronesis. Conversely, reading Gadamer through the lens of Art as Experience, we can read past the misconceptions that philosophical hermeneutics is a version of linguistic idealism, that Gadamer is a "closeted Hegelian" whose idea of a "fusion of horizons" is an apologetics for Absolute Spirit, and that he must be read as a political conservative despite his recurrent protests to the contrary. 2
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