Gadamer Sight Fusion

Gadmar is the philosopher who expresses the Western Destiny by Philosophy. Hestresses the people s characteristics of exist and history and crates a new perspective onthe theory of hermeneutics by raising the hermeneutics to the ontological height. Fusionof horizons is an important part of the hermeneutics, which denies the traditionalhermeneutics horizon’s point of view only focusing on text horizons. He regards theunderstanding as a process of fusing the text and reader s horizons. The paper reviewsand summarizes the horizon fusion theory. Firstly, the author traces the horizon fusiontheory and analyzes the formation process of horizon fusion theory. On the basis, theauthor points out the reader s history has an important impact and the process ofunderstanding is equal to the horizon fusion, furthermore, the author deeply analyzesthe horizon fusion theory by the perspective that history is the unity of subjective andobjective. Then, the author expounds the realization of the horizon fusion process andits characters in the process. Finally, the author compares the theory with its characters.Then, the author pointes out its significance from the theoretical and practicalperspectives, and emphasize the theory s influence in history and the actual meaning inlanguage teaching, cross-culture communication and translation studies.