Gadamer In Conversation: Reflections and Commentary

Gadamer, Hans-Georg; Palmer, Richard

ISBN 10: 0300084889 / ISBN 13: 9780300084887

Published by Yale University Press, 2001

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First Edition, First printing. Book and dust jacket are in Fine condition. Pristine; clean, tight, and unmarked. Not price clipped. A collection of six interviews with Gadamer, conducted between 1989 and 1996, addressing personal and philosophical issues. Edited and translated by Richard E. Palmer. Octavo, viii, 174 pp., notes, and index. Mylar protected.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Gadamer In Conversation: Reflections and Commentary
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300084889
• ISBN 13: 9780300084887
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophy

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Synopsis

This volume presents six lively conversations with Hans-Georg Gadamer (born 1900), one of the twentieth century's master philosophers. Looking back over his life and thought, Gadamer takes up key issues in his philosophy, addresses points of controversy, and replies to his critics, including those who accuse him of having been in complicity with the Nazis. A genial and direct conversationalist, Gadamer is here captured at his best and most accessible. The interviews took place between 1989 and 1996, and all but one appear in English for the first time in this volume. The first three conversations, conducted by Heidelberg philosopher Carsten Dutt, deal with hermeneutics, aesthetics, and practical philosophy and the question of ethics. In a fourth conversation, with University of Heidelberg classics professor Glenn W. Most, Gadamer argues for the vital importance of the Greeks for our contemporary thinking. In the next, the philosopher reaffirms his connection with phenomenology and clarifies his relation to Husserl and Heidegger in a conversation with London philosopher Alfons Grieder. In the final interview, with German Nazi expert Dorte von Westernhagen, Gadamer describes his life as a struggling young professor in Germany in the 1930s and refutes accusations of his complicity with the Nazis. These conversations are a lucid introduction for readers new to the philosopher's thought, and for experts they present an invaluable commentary on Gadamer's most important themes.