Hermeneutics between History and Philosophy: The Selected Writings of Hans-Georg Gadamer - Hardcover

Gadamer, Hans-Georg

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1441158448 ISBN 13: 9781441158444

Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016

Synopsis

Hermeneutics between History and Philosophy collects together Gadamer's remaining important untranslated writings on the problem of history and the major philosophical traditions of the 20th century from the standpoint of hermeneutics. In these writings, Gadamer examines important thinkers as Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Bourdieu and Habermas and their ongoing legacies.

This volume also includes a preface by the editors, who are also the translators, presenting the structure of the volume, a substantial introductionsituating Gadamer's particular project and examining the place of hermeneutics vis-a-vis the disciplines of history and philosophy in the 20th century. The translation is followed by a glossary of German terms and Greek and Latin expressions, as well as a bibliography of all the works cited and alluded to by Gadamer.

About this title

Book Description:

Gadamer's most important untranslated writings on the problem of history and the major philosophical traditions of the 20th century from the standpoint of hermeneutics.

About the Author:

Hans-Georg Gadamer was born on 11 February 1900 and died on 13 March 2002. He was the author, most notably, of Truth and Method, and, more recently, of The Beginning of Philosophy and The Beginning of Knowledge.

Pol Vandevelde is Professor of Philosophy at Marquette University, USA. His previous publications include Être et Discours: La Question du Langage dans L'itinéraire de Heidegger (1927-1938) (1994) The Task of the Interpreter: Text, Meaning, and Negotiation (2005) and Heidegger and the Romantics: the Literary Invention of Meaning (2012).

Arun Iyer is an instructor in Philosophy at Seattle University, USA. He is the author of Towards an Epistemology of Ruptures: The Case of Heidegger and Foucault (2014).

About this edition

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1441158448
• ISBN 13: 9781441158444
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384
• Editor: Vandevelde Pol, Iyer Arun