Bücher von Hans-Georg Gadamer

A particularly insightful commentary on Heidegger's thinking, as well as a fascinating look at Gadamer himself.

Brings together all of Gadamer's published writings on Celan's poetry, and makes them available in English for the first time. This is accessible commentary on a notoriously difficult poet.

Hans-Georg Gadamer, der große deutsche Philosoph der Hermeneutik, sieht in Atemkristall einen »Höhepunkt der Celanschen Kunst«; er versucht, ihn interpretierend und kommentierend zu entschlüsseln und darzustellen. Celan sagte einmal, seine Lyrik würde den Leser als »Flaschenpost« erreichen. Gadamer will die »Erfahrungen eines Lesers in Worte fassen, den solche Flaschenpost erreicht hat«.

Truth and Method is a landmark work of 20th century thought which established Hans Georg-Gadamer as one of the most important philosophical voices of the 20th Century. In this book, Gadamer established the field of 'philosophical hermeneutics': exploring the nature of knowledge, the book rejected traditional quasi-scientific approaches to establishing cultural meaning that were prevalent after the war. In arguing the 'truth' and 'method' acted in opposition to each other, Gadamer examined the ways in which historical and cultural circumstance fundamentally influenced human understanding. It was an approach that would become hugely influential in the humanities and social sciences and remains so to this day in the work of Jurgen Habermas and many others.

This volume explores some of the more important of Hans-Georg Gadamer's extensive writings on art and literature. These essays focus particularly on the challenge issued by modern painting and literature to our customary ideas of art, and in turn revitalise our understanding of it. They are readily accessible to beginning students and general readers.