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Hans-Georg Gadamer

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born

February 11, 1900 in Marburg, Germany

died

March 13, 2002

gender

male

genre

Philosophy, Nonfiction

influences

Martin Heidegger, Paul Natorp, Nicolai Hartmann, Plato

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Hans-Georg Gadamer was born February 11, 1900 in Marburg, Germany.

Gadamer showed an early aptitude for studies in philosophy and after receiving his doctoral degree in 1922 he went on to work directly under Martin Heidegger for a period of five years. This had a profound and lasting effect on Gadamer's philosophical progression.

Gadamer was a teacher for most of his life, and published several important works: Truth and Method is considered his magnum opus. In this work Heidegger's notion of hermeneutics is seen clearly: hermeneutics is not something abstract that one can pick up and leave at will, but rather is something that one does at all times. To both Heidegger and to Gadamer, hermeneutics is not restricted to texts but to everything...more

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Average rating: 4.15 · 702 ratings · 43 reviews · 61 distinct works

	Truth and Method by Hans-Georg Gadamer, Joel Weinsheimer (Translator), Donald G. Marshall (Translator) 4.23 avg rating — 415 ratings — published 1975 — 14 editions	My rating:
	Philosophical Hermeneutics 4.04 avg rating — 97 ratings — published 1976 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Relevance of the Beautiful and Other Essays by Hans-Georg Gadamer, Robert Bernasconi (Editor), Nicholas Walker (Translator) 4.42 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1986 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Dialogue and Dialectic: Eight Hermeneutical Studies on Plato by Hans-Georg Gadamer, P. Christopher Smith (Translator) 4.35 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1980 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Reason in the Age of Science by Hans-Georg Gadamer, Frederick G. Lawrence (Translator) 4.47 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1982 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Hegel's Dialectic: Five Hermeneutical Studies by Hans-Georg Gadamer, P.C. Smith (Translator), P. Christopher Smith (Translation) 4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings — published 1976 — 5 editions	My rating:
	The Beginning of Philosophy by Hans-Georg Gadamer, Rod Coltman (Translator) 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Enigma of Health: The Art of Healing in a Scientific Age by Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jason Geiger (Translator), Nick Walker (Translator) 4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	La Actualidad de Lo Bello 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1991 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Gadamer on Celan: Who Am I and Who Are You? and Other Essays by Hans-Georg Gadamer, Bruce Krajewski (Editor), Richard Heinemann (Editor) 3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:

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Series by Hans-Georg Gadamer

Gesammelte Werke (1 book)
by Hans-Georg Gadamer, Joel Weinsheimer (Translator), Donald G. Marshall (Translator)

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Quotes by Hans-Georg Gadamer

“We cannot understand without wanting to understand, that is, without wanting to let something be said...Understanding does not occur when we try to intercept what someone wants to say to us by claiming we already know it.”
― Hans-Georg Gadamer

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“In truth history does not belong to us but rather we to it.”
― Hans-Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method

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“A cultured society that has fallen away from its religious traditions expects more from art than the aesthetic consciousness and the 'standpoint of art' can deliver. The Romantic desire for a new mythology... gives the artist and his task in the world the consciousness of a new consecration. He is something like a 'secular saviour' for his creations are expected to achieve on a small scale the propitiation of disaster for which an unsaved world hopes.”
― Hans-Georg Gadamer, Truth and Method

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