Bøger af Hans-Georg Gadamer

Hans-Georg Gadamers (1900-2002) Wahrheit und Methode, der udkom første gang i 1960, er ikke blot en moderne klassiker inden for hermeneutikken og fortolkningsteorien, men har også en central placering i den aktuelle filosofiske debat.  Gadamers vigtigste inspirationskilde er Martin Heideggers analyse af den menneskelige væremåde, som han overfører på sproget, kunsterfaringen og den humanvidenskabelige erkendelse. Grundtanken er, at forståelse ikke primært er noget, som subjektet - metodisk og erkendelsesteoretisk - yder og tager i besiddelse. "Spørgsmålet er ikke hvad vi gør, ikke hvad vi skal gøre, men derimod hvad der sker med os ud over det, vi bevidst vil og gør". Forståelse er en "sandhedshændelse": at en sag eller problemstilling pludseligt ses i et nyt lys, hvilket samtidig giver os en ny forståelse af os selv. Denne proces foregår ifølge Gadamer som en "dialog", en bestandig vekslen mellem spørgsmål og svar. Gadamer er selv hele tiden i dialog med den filosofiske tradition, hvilket resulterer i nogle originale nyfortolkninger af bl.a. Platon, Aristoteles, Kant og Hegel. Sandhed og metode er oversat fra den sidste reviderede udgave (1986) af Arne Jørgensen, der også har skrevet en introduktion til værket.

Ethics, Aesthetics and the Historical Dimension of Language collects together Gadamer's most important untranslated writings on ethics, aesthetics and language.With a substantial introduction by the editors exploring Gadamer's ethical project and providing an overview of his aesthetic work, this book collects Gadamer's writings on ancient ethics, including the moral philosophy of Aristotle, and on practical philosophy (first section). In the second section, Gadamer's writings on art are collected, including his examination of poetry, opera and painting among other art forms. The third section comprises Gadamer's essays on language in its historical dimension. This important collection is a useful resource for scholars in philosophy, studying hermeneutics, continental, 20th-century and German philosophy.

Hermeneutics between History and Philosophy collects together Gadamer's remaining important untranslated writings on the problem of history and the major philosophical traditions of the 20th century from the standpoint of hermeneutics. In these writings, Gadamer examines important thinkers such as Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Bourdieu and Habermas and their ongoing legacies. This volume includes a preface by the editors and translators, presenting the structure of the volume, and a substantial introduction situating Gadamer's particular project and examining the place of hermeneutics in relation to the disciplines of history and philosophy in the 20th century. The translation is followed by a glossary of German terms and Greek and Latin expressions, as well as a bibliography of all the works cited and alluded to by Gadamer. Together, the essays and critical apparatus provide an overarching account of Gadamer's understanding of human life as embedded within history.

A particularly insightful commentary on Heidegger's thinking, as well as a fascinating look at Gadamer himself.

Brings together all of Gadamer's published writings on Celan's poetry, and makes them available in English for the first time. This is accessible commentary on a notoriously difficult poet.

Ethics, Aesthetics and the Historical Dimension of Language collects together Gadamer's most important untranslated writings on ethics, aesthetics and language.With a substantial introduction by the editors exploring Gadamer's ethical project and providing an overview of his aesthetic work, this book collects Gadamer's writings on ancient ethics, including the moral philosophy of Aristotle, and on practical philosophy (first section). In the second section, Gadamer's writings on art are collected, including his examination of poetry, opera and painting among other art forms. The third section comprises Gadamer's essays on language in its historical dimension. This important collection is a useful resource for scholars in philosophy, studying hermeneutics, continental, 20th-century and German philosophy.

Truth and Method is a landmark work of 20th century thought which established Hans Georg-Gadamer as one of the most important philosophical voices of the 20th Century. In this book, Gadamer established the field of 'philosophical hermeneutics': exploring the nature of knowledge, the book rejected traditional quasi-scientific approaches to establishing cultural meaning that were prevalent after the war. In arguing the 'truth' and 'method' acted in opposition to each other, Gadamer examined the ways in which historical and cultural circumstance fundamentally influenced human understanding. It was an approach that would become hugely influential in the humanities and social sciences and remains so to this day in the work of Jurgen Habermas and many others.

"This book is a virtual case study in the application of hermeneutical principles to illuminate philosophical texts. The book contains translations of eight of Gadamer's best known essays on Plato....These studies, spanning a period of almost fifty years, are important not only for what they have to say concerning Plato, but also for what they reveal about the development and insightfulness of Gadamer's hermeneutical theory of interpretation....[He] aims at dialogue with Plato and achieves it."--Jeremiah P. Conway, International Philosophical Quarterly"A remarkable felicitous set of translations."--Martin Warner, Times Higher Education Supplement"Gadamer is among the most eminent followers of Heidegger and rather more accessible that most. It is therefore a service to have these eight essays on Plato, dating from 1934 to 1974, translated competently into English."--Choice"May be the best introduction to Gadamer yet published in this country."--W.G. Regier, Modern Language Notes

Conveys the scope and depth of Hans-Georg Gadamer's thought, covering the range of his work in hermeneutics, aesthetics, practical philosophy, and essays on Plato, Hegel, and Heidegger. This work also covers introductory remarks before each essay that explain its importance in the context of Gadamer's writings and define its key terms.

Throughout his long career, Gadamer wrote and taught widely on the philosophy of the Ancient world. In this volume, moving from the Pre-Socratics to Plato, Gadamer explores the legacy that Ancient thought left for such philosophical giants as Kant, Schleiermacher and Hegel. Ancient Sources, Modern Appropriations also includes a substantial critical introduction in which the Editors reconstruct Gadamer's views on how the study of the history of philosophy contributes to the task of doing philosophy by keeping a tradition alive and moving it into the future. This final volume of the The Selected Writings of Hans-Georg Gadamer also includes a thorough bibliography of Gadamer's available writings in English and key secondary studies of his Philosophical Hermeneutics. Available in English for the first time, Ancient Sources, Modern Appropriations is comprised of the most important of Gadamer's previously untranslated writings on Ancient philosophy.

Contains 13 essays from "Kleine Schriften", dealing with hermeneutical reflection, phenomenology, existential philosophy, and philosophical hermeneutics. This book applies hermeneutical analysis to Heidegger and Husserl's phenomenology.

The essays in this book deal broadly with the question of what form reasoning about life and society can take in a culture permeated by scientific and technical modes of thought.

This volume explores some of the more important of Hans-Georg Gadamer's extensive writings on art and literature. These essays focus particularly on the challenge issued by modern painting and literature to our customary ideas of art, and in turn revitalise our understanding of it. They are readily accessible to beginning students and general readers.