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Hans-Georg Gadamer (February 11, 1900 – March 13, 2002) was a German philosopher best known for his 1960 magnum opus, Truth and Method (Wahrheit und Methode).
Life
Gadamer was born in Marburg, Germany, as the son of a pharmaceutical chemist who later also served as the rector of the university there. Gadamer resisted his father's urging to take up the natural sciences and grew more and more interested in the humanities. He grew up and studied in Breslau under Hönigswald, but soon moved back to Marburg to study with the Neo-Kantian philosophers Paul Natorp and Nicolai Hartmann. He defended his dissertation in 1922.
Shortly thereafter, Gadamer visited Freiburg and began studying with Martin Heidegger, who was then a promising young scholar who had not yet received a professorship. He thus became one of a group of students such as Leo Strauss, Karl Löwith, and Hannah Arendt. He and Heidegger became close, and when Heidegger received a position at Marburg, Gadamer followed him there. It was Heidegger's influence that gave Gadamer's thought its distinctive cast and led him away from the earlier neo-Kantian influences of Natorp and Hartmann.
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Etsuro Makita's Gadamer Page - Homepage of the author of the definitive Gadamer bibliography. Includes a substantial portion of the bibliography. In German and Japanese.
Gadamer and the Philosophy of Education - Article from the Encyclopaedia of Philosophy of Education, by Padraig Hogan. Details six themes of Gadamer's hermeneutics, in relation to pedagogy.
Gadamer on Celan - A collection of all of Gadamer's published writings on Celan's poetry. There is also an accessible commentary on the poems and a translation of Who Am I and Who Are You.
Gadamer: The idea of the good in Platonic-Aristotelian philosophy - Annotation of Gadamers 1974 and 1976 lectures at the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences.
Hans-Georg Gadamer - Gadamer Page at Mythos Logos, including links to other Gadamer pages on the www.
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Hans-Georg Gadamer - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy article providing a brief biographical sketch, a genealogy of Gadamer's hermeneutic philosophy, an explication of its fundamental principles, and primary and secondary bibliographical resources. By Jeff Malpas.
Hans-Georg Gadamer: An Appreciation - Includes links, photogallery, essays and bibliographic notes about Gadamer.
Heidegger's Ways by H.G. Gadamer - Anotation of Gadamer's volume on Heidegger. Some of the fifteen essays, written over a period of about 25 years, look back to Gadamer's early days as a student under Heidegger.
Library of Living Philosophers: Hans-Georg Gadamer - A description of this volume, which is intended to shed new light on Gadamer's relation to Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Hegel, and especially on his complex relationship to Heidegger.
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Literature and Philosophy in Dialogue: Gadamer - Presentation of Essays in German Literary Theory by Hans-Georg Gadamer at State University of New York Press.
MediaMente: Hans Georg Gadamer - Italian site, which gives a short biography and bibliography of Gadamer. In English.
Richard Palmer - Homepage of the premier exponent of Gadamer in English. Includes notes on how to research Gadamer, bibliographies, and general links on hermeneutics.
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