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From: Jud Wolfskill <[log in to unmask]>
I thought readers of the German Studies List might be interested in this book.
For more information please visit http://mitpress.mit.edu/0262134039
Gadamer's Century
Essays in Honor of Hans-Georg Gadamer
edited by Jeff Malpas, Ulrich Arnswald, and Jens Kertscher
Philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer has made major contributions to aesthetic
theory, Plato and Hegel studies, humanistic studies, and the philosophy of
history. A student of Martin Heidegger, Gadamer took up and developed a
number of central Heideggerian insights. He also had productive public
debates with contemporaries such as Emilio Betti and Jürgen Habermas. The
shape of contemporary hermeneutics is due almost entirely to Gadamer's
influence, and his magnum opus, Truth and Method, is considered one of the
great philosophical works of the twentieth century. This book is dedicated to
Gadamer in honor of his hundredth birthday, in 2000. The essays provide a
measure of the classical character of Gadamer's work by showing the
breadth of engagement his ideas have provoked. As in Gadamer's own life
and work, dialogue and conversation figure as important themes in all of the
essays. While they encompass a diversity of philosophical perspectives,
interests, and styles, the essays also suggest the ever-present possibility of
dialogue across language and tradition and of the formation of new modes of
discourse and philosophizing.
Jeff Malpas is Professor and Head of the School of Philosophy at the
University of Tasmania. He is coeditor of Heidegger, Authenticity, and
Modernity (MIT Press, 2000) and Heidegger, Coping, and Cognitive Science
(MIT Press, 2000). Ulrich Arnswald teaches at the International University of
Germany and is the founding Director of the Institute for International Affairs
in Heidelberg. Jens Kertscher teaches at the Technical University of
Darmstadt.
Contributors
Hans Albert, Ulrich Arnswald, Gerald Bruns, John M. Connolly, Jay L.
Garfield, Robert C. Holub, Jens Kertscher, Alasdair MacIntyre, Jeff Malpas,
John McDowell, Robert B. Pippin, Paul Ricoeur, Stanley Rosen, Lawrence
Schmidt, Charles Taylor, Gianni Vattimo, Georgia Warnke.
6 x 9, 336 pp., paper ISBN 0-262-63247-0, cloth ISBN 0-262-13403-9
Studies in Contemporary German Social Thought series
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