Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Gadamer
- Other Volumes in the Series of Cambridge Companions
- The Cambridge Companion to Gadamer
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Gadamer (1900–2002)
- 2 Gadamer’s Basic Understanding of Understanding
- 3 Getting It Right
- 4 Philosophical Hermeneutics, Language, and the Communicative Event
- 5 Phronesis and Solidarity
- 6 Gadamer’s Herderian Critics
- 7 Gadamer on the Human Sciences
- 8 Art Experience and Its Transformative Potential in Gadamer’s Hermeneutics
- 9 Lyric as Paradigm
- 10 Gadamer, the Hermeneutic Revolution, and Theology
- 11 Hermeneutics in Practice
- 12 Gadamer’s Hegel
- 13 Gadamer’s Relation to Heidegger and to Phenomenology
- 14 The Constellation of Hermeneutics, Critical Theory, and Deconstruction
- 15 Hermeneutics in a Broader Horizon
- Bibliography
- Index
- Other Volumes in the Series of Cambridge Companions (continued from page ii)
1 - Gadamer (1900–2002)
The Man and His Work
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 July 2021
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Companion to Gadamer
- Other Volumes in the Series of Cambridge Companions
- The Cambridge Companion to Gadamer
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- 1 Gadamer (1900–2002)
- 2 Gadamer’s Basic Understanding of Understanding
- 3 Getting It Right
- 4 Philosophical Hermeneutics, Language, and the Communicative Event
- 5 Phronesis and Solidarity
- 6 Gadamer’s Herderian Critics
- 7 Gadamer on the Human Sciences
- 8 Art Experience and Its Transformative Potential in Gadamer’s Hermeneutics
- 9 Lyric as Paradigm
- 10 Gadamer, the Hermeneutic Revolution, and Theology
- 11 Hermeneutics in Practice
- 12 Gadamer’s Hegel
- 13 Gadamer’s Relation to Heidegger and to Phenomenology
- 14 The Constellation of Hermeneutics, Critical Theory, and Deconstruction
- 15 Hermeneutics in a Broader Horizon
- Bibliography
- Index
- Other Volumes in the Series of Cambridge Companions (continued from page ii)
Summary
This chapter provides a biography of Gadamer and includes an overview of the philosophical work that Gadamer produced. It provides an account of his youth and education, his early career in Nazi Germany, and his career after World War II. He was named Rektor of Leipzig University in East Germany but gave up the position and came to West Germany, first to Frankfurt and then to Heidelberg. In 1960 he published Truth and Method, which slowly became recognized world-wide. He retired in 1968 and was very productive throughout his old age.
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- The Cambridge Companion to Gadamer , pp. 15 - 43Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021