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Hermeneutics between History and Philosophy: The Selected Writings of Hans-Georg Gadamer

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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 as Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Bourdieu and Habermas and their ongoing legacies.

This volume also includes a preface by the editors, who are also the translators, presenting the structure of the volume, a substantial introductionsituating Gadamer's particular project and examining the place of hermeneutics vis-a-vis 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.

Gadamer's most important untranslated writings on the problem of history and the major philosophical traditions of the 20th century from the standpoint of hermeneutics.

Supported by a substantial Editor's Introduction and critical footnotes throughout
Includes Gadamer's critical examinations of such thinkers as Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Bourdieu and Habermas
Includes Gadamer's most important previously untranslated essays on Philosophy of History and History of Philosophy

Part I: Introduction: Hermeneutics Between History and Philosophy Pol Vandevelde and Arun Iyer
Introduction by translators

I. History as a Problem: On Being Historically Affected
1. Is There a Causality in History?
2. Historicity and Truth
3. The History of the Universe and the Historicity of the Human Beings
4. A World Without History?
5. The Old and the New
6. Death as a Question

II. The Impetus for Thinking Hermeneutically: On the Task of Dilthey
7. The Problem of Dilthey: Between Romanticism and Positivism
8. Dilthey and Ortega: The Philosophy of Life
9. Hermeneutics and the Diltheyan School

III. Confronting Other Intellectual Movements and Disciplines
10. Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity, Subject and Person
11. On the Contemporary Relevance of Husserl's Phenomenology
12. “Being and Nothingness” (Jean-Paul Sartre)
13. Heidegger and Sociology (Bourdieu and Habermas)
14. Hermeneutics On the Trail

IV Hermeneutics of Beginnings and Returns: The Case of Heidegger
15. Remembering Heidegger's Beginnings
16. The Turn in the Path
17. On the Beginning of Thought
18. On the Way Back to the Beginning

Index


Hans-Georg Gadamer was born on 11 February 1900 and died on 13 March 2002. He was the author, most notably, of Truth and Method, and, more recently, of The Beginning of Philosophy and The Beginning of Knowledge.

Pol Vandevelde is Professor of Philosophy at Marquette University, USA. His previous publications include Être et Discours: La Question du Langage dans L'itinéraire de Heidegger (1927-1938) (1994) The Task of the Interpreter: Text, Meaning, and Negotiation (2005) and Heidegger and the Romantics: the Literary Invention of Meaning (2012).

Arun Iyer is an instructor in Philosophy at Seattle University, USA. He is the author of Towards an Epistemology of Ruptures: The Case of Heidegger and Foucault (2014).

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    $23.24

    Digital list price: $42.25
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