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Author Di Cesare, Donatella, author

Title Gadamer : a philosophical portrait / Donatella Di Cesare ; translated by Niall Keane
Published Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2013]
©2013

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 233 pages)
Series Studies in Continental thought
Studies in Continental thought.
Contents Living through a century -- The event of truth -- Lingering in art -- On the way to philosophical hermeneutics -- The constellation of understanding -- An ethics close to life -- The enigma of Socrates : philosophical hermeneutics and Greek philosophy -- The horizon of dialogue -- Hermeneutics as philosophy -- Keeping the dialogue going
Summary Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002), one of the towering figures of contemporary Continental philosophy, is best known for Truth and Method, where he elaborated the concept of "philosophical hermeneutics," a programmatic way to get to what we do when we engage in interpretation. In this book, the author highlights the central place of Greek philosophy, particularly Plato, in Gadamer's work, brings out differences between his thought and that of Heidegger, and connects him with discussions and debates in pragmatism. This is a sensitive philosophical portrait of one of the twentieth century's most powerful thinkers
Notes Originally published in Italian, 2007
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes English
Subject Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 1900-2002
SUBJECT Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 1900-2002 fast
Subject Philosophers -- Germany
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
PHILOSOPHY -- Movements -- Phenomenology.
Philosophers
Germany
Form Electronic book
Author Keane, Niall, translator.
LC no. 2012049480
ISBN 9780253007681
0253007682