... texts), one is already engaged in the business of taking up a stance toward the future in the light of the past. Reading, then, is a matter of anticipating meaning and of correcting one's anticipations, ... knowledge in terms of affinity and sympathy, of interest for the entire nature of human being. In spite of the fact that it is not systematic in the usual sense, Gadamer thinks of this metatheory ... outward in its opposition to itself, in its sheer objectivity. When, however, Hegel in contrast teaches the true infinity of self-determining being in itself for example, of the living thing,...