Hans-Georg Gadamer : A Biography,9780300098419

Hans-Georg Gadamer : A Biography

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ISBN13: 9780300098419
ISBN10: 0300098413
Format: Trade Book
Pub. Date: 2003-04-10
Publisher(s): Yale University Press
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Summary

Hans-Georg Gadamer lived through the darkest times in modern German history, continuing his philosophical work through the period of the Third Reich & the devastation of the Second World War.

Author Biography

Jean Grondin is professor of philosophy at the University of Montreal.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix
Note on Gadamer's Unpublished Correspondence xii
Introduction: What Is Hermeneutics? 1(10)
1900: A Vintage Year for Hermeneutics
11(6)
``Does One Love a Father?''
17(18)
To What Extent Is Human Life a Continual Struggle?: School Days in Breslau
35(18)
University Studies in Breslau: The Sense of Decline and Philosophy of Science
53(18)
Marburg Demons
71(20)
Be Awake for the Fire of the Night: The Encounter with Heidegger
91(18)
Flight to the Greeks
109(19)
Uncertain Freedom Before the Storm
128(22)
1933
150(20)
Consolidation
170(30)
Et illud transit
200(31)
The Rectorship amid Class Struggle
231(30)
On the Way to Hermeneutics
261(22)
Truth and Method
283(18)
A Cannonade from Ideology Critique
301(11)
Second Youth
312(18)
Epilogue 330(9)
Appendix 1: Chronology 339(27)
Appendix 2: Gadamer's Announced Classes and Lectures at German Universities 366(15)
Notes 381(92)
Index 473

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