Hans-Georg Gadamer : A Biography

by Jean Grondin; Translated by Joel Weinsheimer

• ISBN13: 9780300098419
• ISBN10: 0300098413
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2003-04-10
• Publisher: Yale University Press

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Note on Gadamer's Unpublished Correspondence	xii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