Hans-Georg Gadamer

Hans-Georg Gadamer
Wassili Lepanto and Hans-Georg Gadamer, c. 2000
Born(1900-02-11)February 11, 1900
DiedMarch 13, 2002(2002-03-13) (aged 102)
Alma materUniversity of Breslau
University of Marburg (PhD, 1922)
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
School
Continental philosophy
Hermeneutics
Ontological hermeneutics[1]
Hermeneutic phenomenology[2]
InstitutionsUniversity of Marburg (1928–1938)
Leipzig University (1938–1948)
Goethe University Frankfurt (1948–1949)
University of Heidelberg (1949–2002)
Main interests
Notable ideas
  • "Practical philosophy"
  • "All products of a tradition stand within that tradition"
  • Language as "unity of the infinite
    and finite"
  • "Historically-effected" consciousness
  • Fusion of horizons
Influenced
    • Babette Babich
    • Habermas
    • Henrich
    • Hans Robert Jauss
    • Koselleck
    • Dennis J. Schmidt

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.

Other websites

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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" Archived 2013-07-27 at the Wayback Machine, 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).