Hans-Georg Gadamer

Hans-Georg Gadamer
Hans-Georg Gadamer
	Wassili Lepanto an Hans-Georg Gadamer, c. 2000
Born	11 Februar 1900; Marburg, German Empire
Dee'd	13 Mairch 2002 (aged 102); Heidelberg, Germany
Alma mater	Varsity o Breslau; University of Marburg (PhD, 1922)
Era	20t-century philosophy
Region	Wastren philosophy
Schuil	Continental philosophy; Hermeneutics; Ontological hermeneutics; Hermeneutic phenomenology
Institutions	Varsity o Marburg (1928–1938); Leipzig Varsity (1938–1948); Goethe Varsity Frankfurt (1948–1949); Varsity o Heidelberg (1949–2002)
Main interests	Metaphysics; Epistemology; Leid; Ontology; Aesthetics;
Notable ideas	"Practical philosopy"; "Aw products o a tradeetion staund within that tradeetion"; Leid as "unity o the infinite; an finite"; "Historically-effectit" consciousness; Fusion o horizons;
	Influences Plato; Aristotle; Augustine; Kant; Hegel; Husserl; Heidegger; Jaspers; ;
	Influenced Babette Babich; Habermas; Henrich; Hans Robert Jauss; Koselleck; Dennis J. Schmidt; ;

Hans-Georg Gadamer (German: [ˈɡaːdamɐ]; Februar 11, 1900 – Mairch 13, 2002) wis a German philosopher o the continental tradeetion, best kent for his 1960 magnum opus Truith an Method (Wahrheit und Methode) on hermeneutics.

References

↑ Jeff Malpas, Hans-Helmuth Gande (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Hermeneutics, Routledge, 2014, p. 259.
↑ Hans-Georg Gadamer, "Towards a phenomenology of ritual and language", in Lawrence Kennedy Schmidt (ed.), Language and Linguisticality in Gadamer's Hermeneutics, Lexington Books, 2000, p. 30; James Hans, "Hans-Georg Gadamer and Hermeneutic Phenomenology," Philosophy Today 22 (1978), 3–19.