Hans-Georg Gadamer

Hans-Georg Gadamer
Hans-Georg Gadamer, c. 2000
Born(1900-02-11)11 February 1900
Died13 March 2002(2002-03-13) (aged 102)
Alma materUniversity of Breslau
University of Marburg
Era20th-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
School
InstitutionsUniversity of Marburg (1928–1938)
Leipzig University (1938–1948)
Goethe University Frankfurt (1948–1949)
University of Heidelberg (1949–2002)
ThesisThe Nature of Pleasure According to Plato's Dialogues (1922)
Doctoral advisorPaul Natorp
Notable studentsCharles Guignon
Emilio Lledo
Main interests
Notable ideas
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Hans-Georg Gadamer (/ˈɡɑːdəmər/; German: [ˈɡaːdamɐ]; 11 February 1900 – 13 March 2002) was a German philosopher of the continental tradition, best known for his 1960 magnum opus on hermeneutics, Truth and Method (Wahrheit und Methode).

  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.
  3. ^ "Hans-Georg Gadamer", Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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