Die Arbeiten des Bandes 7 fuhren die in Band 5 und 6 vorgelegten Studien weiter. Es handelt sich fast durchweg um neuere Arbeiten aus den letzten 15 Jahren vor Erscheinen des Bandes. Trotz der Verschiedenheit der Titel zeichnet sich in allen Arbeiten, ob uber die Vorsokratiker, uber Plato oder Arist[...]
Die Bande 5 bis 7 werden alle meine Studien zur griechischen Philosophie umfassen. Ihre geschlossene Darbietung soll fur den deutschen Leser das nachholen, was in anderen Sprachen (englisch und italienisch vor allem), teilweise bereits vorliegt. Im Grossen habe ich eine chronologische Ordnung angest[...]
This volume presents six lively conversations with Hans-Georg Gadamer (born 1900), one of the twentieth century's master philosophers. Looking back over his life and thought, Gadamer takes up key issues in his philosophy, addresses points of controversy, and replies to his critics, including those w[...]
The German volume "Gadamer Lesebuch" [A Gadamer Reader] (1997), selected and edited by Jean Grondin in consultation with Hans-Georg Gadamer himself, contains a set of essays that present a cross section of writings by one of the twentieth century's greatest philosophers. The volume begins with an au[...]
This volume makes available for the first time in English the most important of Hans-Georg Gadamerâs extensive writings on art and literature. The principal text included is âThe Relevance of the Beautifulâ, Gadamerâs most sustained treatment of philosophical aesthetics. The elev[...]
"This collection of probing and lucidly written essays shows Gadamer as the leading Continental philosopher after Heidegger....".[...]
These five essays on Hegel give the English-speaking reader a long-awaited opportunity to read the work of one of Germany's most distinguished philosophers, Hans-Georg Gadamer. Gadamer's unique hermeneutic method will have a lasting effect on Hegel studies.[...]
"This book is a virtual case study in the application of hermeneutical principles to illuminate philosophical texts. The book contains translations of eight of Gadamer's best known essays on Plato...These studies, spanning a period of almost fifty years, are important not only for what they have to [...]
Plato's Dialectical Ethics, Gadamer's earliest work, has now been translated into English for the first time. This classic book, published in 1931 and reprinted in 1967 and 1982, is still important today. It is one of the most extensive and imaginative interpretations of Plato's Philebus and an idea[...]
In the years shortly before and after the publication of his classic Truth and Method (1960), the eminent German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer returned often to questions surrounding religion and ethics. In this selection of writings from Gesammelte Werke that are here translated into English for t[...]
Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002) was one of the greatest philosophers of our era. He was also at the center of some of the century's darkest, most complex historical events, for he chose to remain in his native Germany in the 1930s, neither supporting Hitler nor actively opposing him, but negotiating [...]
Hans-Georg Gadamer's theory of hermeneutics is one of the most important modern theories of reading, offering both a framework for understanding the practice and a method for its interpretation. In this clear and comprehensive guide to Gadamer's thought, Karl Simms: * presents an overview of his lif[...]
This excellent collection contains 13 essays from Gadamer's "Kleine Schriften", dealing with hermeneutical reflection, phenomenology, existential philosophy, and philosophical hermeneutics. Gadamer applies hermeneutical analysis to Heidegger and Husserl's phenomenology, an approach that proves criti[...]
In this book Gadamer discusses the transformations in human self--understanding, focusing on the achievements of modern medicine.[...]
A philosophical and historical testament to the twentieth century, this volume consists of a wide-ranging series of interviews conducted in 1999/2000 between the then centenarian and his former assistant and associate of over thirty years, Riccardo Dottori. These ten dialogues distill and situate Ga[...]
Written in the 1960s, TRUTH AND METHOD is Gadamer's magnum opus. Looking behind the self-consciousness of science, he discusses the tense relationship between truth and methodology. In examining the different experiences of truth, he aims to "present the hermeneutic phenomenon in its fullest extent.[...]
Truth and Method is a landmark work of 20th century thought which established Hans Georg-Gadamer as one of the most important philosophical voices of the 20th Century. In this book, Gadamer established the field of 'philosophical hermeneutics': exploring the nature of knowledge, the book rejected tr[...]