Gadamer's Century by Jens Kertscher - ISBN: 9780262632478
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A wide-ranging collection of philosophical essays in honor of Hans-Georg Gadamer.

Gadamer's Century

Essays in Honor of Hans-Georg Gadamer

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    336 pages

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    18 January 2002

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Summary

Philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer has made major contributions to aesthetic theory, Plato and Hegel studies, humanistic studies, and the philosophy of history. A student of Martin Heidegger, Gadamer took up and developed a number of central Heideggerian insights. He also had productive public debates with contemporaries such as Emilio Betti and J rgen Habermas. The shape of contemporary hermeneutics is due almost entirely to Gadamer’s influence, and his magnum opus, Truth and Method, is consider…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780262632478
ISBN-10:0262632470
Author:Jens Kertscher, Jeff Malpas, Ulrich Arnswald
Publisher:MIT Press Ltd
Imprint:MIT Press
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:336
Release Date:18 January 2002
Weight:608g
Dimensions:229mm x 152mm x 20mm
Series:Gadamer's Century
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“Gadamer’s Century illuminate[s] a wide range of disputes in various humanities, disciplines, and in philosophy itself.” Neill The Times Literacy

Gadamer’s Century illuminate[s] a wide range of disputes in various humanities, disciplines, and in philosophy itself.

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About The Author

Jens Kertscher

Jeff Malpas is Distinguished Professor at the University of Tasmania and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Latrobe University. He is the author of Heidegger’s Topology- Being, Place, World and Heidegger and the Thinking of Place- Explorations in the Topology of Being, both published by the MIT Press.Ulrich Arnswald teaches at the International University of Germany and is the founding Director of the Institute for International Affairs in Heidelberg.Jens Kertscher teaches at the Technical University of Darmstadt.

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