Hans-Georg Gadamer

Hans-Georg Gadamer (German: [ˈɡaːdamɐ]; February 11, 1900 – March 13, 2002) was a German philosopher. His philosophy was about the continental tradition. He was best known for his 1960 magnum opus Truth and Method (Wahrheit und Methode) on hermeneutics.

Hans-Georg Gadamer
Wassili Lepanto and Hans-Georg Gadamer, c. 2000
Born	(1900-02-11)February 11, 1900 Marburg, German Empire
Died	March 13, 2002(2002-03-13) (aged 102) Heidelberg, Germany
Alma mater	University of Breslau University of Marburg (PhD, 1922)
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental philosophy Hermeneutics Ontological hermeneutics Hermeneutic phenomenology
Institutions	University of Marburg (1928–1938) Leipzig University (1938–1948) Goethe University Frankfurt (1948–1949) University of Heidelberg (1949–2002)
Main interests	Metaphysics Epistemology Language Ontology Aesthetics
Notable ideas	"Practical philosophy" "All products of a tradition stand within that tradition" Language as "unity of the infinite and finite" "Historically-effected" consciousness Fusion of horizons
Influences Schelling Plato Aristotle Augustine Kant Hegel Husserl Heidegger Jaspers
Influenced Babette Babich Habermas Henrich Hans Robert Jauss Koselleck Dennis J. Schmidt

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Media related to Hans-Georg Gadamer at Wikimedia Commons Quotations related to Hans-Georg Gadamer at Wikiquote

• Hans-Georg Gadamer at Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
• Chronology (in German) Archived 2012-12-19 at Archive.today
• Works by Gadamer Archived 2012-12-19 at Archive.today
• Hans-Georg Gadamer: Plato as portratist Archived 2011-07-21 at the Wayback Machine
• Miguel Ángel Quintana Paz: "On Hermeneutical Ethics and Education", a paper on the relevance of Gadamer's Hermeneutics for our understanding of music, ethics and education in both.
• Larisa Cercel, Auf den Spuren einer verschütteten Evidenz: Übersetzung und Hermeneutik Archived 2012-10-29 at the Wayback Machine, in: Larisa Cercel (ed.), Übersetzung und Hermeneutik / Traduction et herméneutique Archived 2009-07-23 at the Wayback Machine, Bucharest, Zeta Books, 2009, ISBN 978-973-199-706-3 (paperback), 978-973-1997-07-0 (ebook).