Author:
Gadamer, Hans-Georg, 1900-2002.
Imprint:Chicago, Ill. : Open Court, c1997.
Descriptionxviii, 619 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Note:Part One: INTELLECTUAL AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF HANS-GEORG GADAMER: Reflections on my philosophical journey -- Foreword to the esays and replies by Hans-Georg Gadamer -- PART TWO: DESCRIPTIVE AND CRITICAL ESSAYS ON THE PHILOSOPHY OF HANS-GEORG GADAMER, WITH REPLIES: 1. Regulative ideas or truth-happening?: An attempt to answer the question of the conditions of the possibility of valid understanding / Karl-Otto Apel -- 2. Gadamer and realism: reaching an understanding / Roderick M. Chisholm -- 3. Post-Cartesian interpretation: Hans-Georg Gadamer and Donald Davidson / David C. Hoy -- 4. Gadamer on the beautiful / Joan Stambaugh -- 5. Gadamer and Vico on Sensus Communis and the tradition of humane knowledge / Donald Phillip Verene -- 6. Gadamer on humanism / Jean grondin -- 7. Philosophy, its history, and hermeneutics / George R. Lucas, Jr. -- 8. Towards a new theory of the historical sciences: the relevance of Truth and Method / Herta Nagl-Docekal -- 9. Horizontverschmelzung / Stanley H. Rosen -- 10. Gadamer's theory of hermeneutics / Robert Sokolowski -- 11. Gadamer's early and distinctively political hermeneutics / Robert R. Sullivan -- 12. The figure of Socrates in Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics / Francis J. Ambrosio -- 13. Gadamer's critique of the Enlightenment / David Detmer -- 14. Gadamer's continuous challenge: Heidegger's Plato interpretation / Robert J. Dostal -- 15. Truth in metaphysics and in hermeneutics / Graeme Nicholson -- 16. Eros and understanding: Gadamer's aesthetic ontology of the community / Thomas M. Alexander -- 17. Hermeneutics' claim to universality / G.B. Madison -- 18. Historicistic finitude and philosophical hermeneutics / Carl Page -- 19. The voice of the other in Gadamer's hermeneutics / James Risser -- 20. Hermeneia: an anatomy of history and Ab-wesenheit / D. Wyatt Aiken -- 21. Gadamer and Plato's Philebus / Donald Davidson -- 22. Gadamer on Heideggeron art / Diane P. Michelfelder -- 23. The source of the subjective / Bjørn T. Ramberg -- 24. Rereading the Tilmaeus: the memorial power of discourse / John Sallis -- 25. Putting oneself in words... / Dennis J. Schmidt -- 26. Gender, Nazism, and hermeneutics / Robin May Schott -- 27. The I-thou encounter (Begegnung) in Gadamer's reception of Heidegger / P. Christopher Smith -- 28. Ritual, rightness, and truth in two late works of Hans-Georg Gadamer / Richard E. Palmer -- 29. A thought or two on Gadamer's Plato / Thomas Prufer -- Part Three: BIBLIOGRAPHY OF HANS-GEORG GADAMER.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. [555]-602) and index.
