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Ancient Sources, Modern Appropriations
Gadamer, Hans-Georg. Ed(S): Iyer, Arun; Vandevelde, Pol
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Hardback. Editor(s): Iyer, Arun; Vandevelde, Pol. Translator(s): Iyer, Arun; Vandevelde, Pol. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: HPCA; HPCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
Throughout his long career, Gadamer wrote and taught widely on the philosophy of the ancient world. In this volume, moving from the Pre-Socratics to Plato, Gadamer explores the legacy that ancient thought left for such philosophical giants as Kant, Schleiermacher and Hegel.
Ancient Sources, Modern Appropriations also includes a substantial critical introduction in which the Editors reconstruct Gadamer's views on how the study of the history of philosophy contributes to the task of doing philosophy by keeping a tradition alive and moving it into the future. This final volume of the The Selected Writings of Hans-Georg Gadamer also includes ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Continuum Publishing Corporation United States
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781441112743
SKU
V9781441112743
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About Gadamer, Hans-Georg. Ed(S): Iyer, Arun; Vandevelde, Pol
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. Arun Iyer is an instructor in Philosophy at Seattle University, USA. He is the author of Towards an Epistemology of Ruptures: The ... Read more
Reviews for Ancient Sources, Modern Appropriations
The third in Vandeverlde and Iyer’s excellent series, this volume makes accessible in English a selection of essays from the Gesammelte Werke that foreground Gadamer’s engagement with the history of philosophy providing new insights into his reading of Plato and Hegel, as well as of Parmenides, Heraclitus, Oetinger, Herder and Schleiermacher. The translated texts are supplemented by a glossary and ... Read more