Hans-Georg Gadamer

Hans-Georg Gadamer
Wassili Lepanto and Hans-Georg Gadamer, c. 2000
Born(1900-02-11)February 11, 1900
Marburg, German Empire
DiedMarch 13, 2002(2002-03-13) (aged 102)
Heidelberg, Germany
Alma materUniversity of Breslau
University of Marburg (PhD, 1922)
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
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InstitutionsUniversity of Marburg (1928–1938)
Leipzig University (1938–1948)
Goethe University Frankfurt (1948–1949)
University of Heidelberg (1949–2002)
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Hans-Georg Gadamer (German: [ˈɡaːdamɐ]; February 11, 1900 – March 13, 2002) was a German philosopher. His philosophy was about the continental tradition. He was best known for his 1960 magnum opus Truth and Method (Wahrheit und Methode) on hermeneutics.

References

  1. ↑ Jeff Malpas, Hans-Helmuth Gande (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Hermeneutics, Routledge, 2014, p. 259.
  2. ↑ Hans-Georg Gadamer, "Towards a phenomenology of ritual and language", in Lawrence Kennedy Schmidt (ed.), Language and Linguisticality in Gadamer's Hermeneutics, Lexington Books, 2000, p. 30; James Hans, "Hans-Georg Gadamer and Hermeneutic Phenomenology," Philosophy Today 22 (1978), 3–19.

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  • Hans-Georg Gadamer at Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  • Chronology (in German) Archived 2012-12-19 at Archive.today
  • Works by Gadamer Archived 2012-12-19 at Archive.today
  • Hans-Georg Gadamer: Plato as portratist Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine
  • Miguel Ángel Quintana Paz: "On Hermeneutical Ethics and Education", a paper on the relevance of Gadamer's Hermeneutics for our understanding of music, ethics and education in both.
  • Larisa Cercel, Auf den Spuren einer verschütteten Evidenz: Übersetzung und Hermeneutik Archived 2012-10-29 at the Wayback Machine, in: Larisa Cercel (ed.), Übersetzung und Hermeneutik / Traduction et herméneutique Archived 2009-07-23 at the Wayback Machine, Bucharest, Zeta Books, 2009, ISBN 978-973-199-706-3 (paperback), 978-973-1997-07-0 (ebook).