Ancient Sources, Modern Appropriations: The Selected Writings of Hans-Georg Gadamer: Volume III

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Throughout his long career, Gadamer wrote and taught widely on the philosophy of the ancient world. In this volume, moving from the Pre-Socratics to Plato, Gadamer explores the legacy that ancient thought left for such philosophical giants as Kant, Schleiermacher and Hegel. Ancient Sources, Modern Appropriations also includes a substantial critical introduction in which the Editors reconstruct Gadamer's views on how the study of the history of philosophy contributes to the task of doing philosophy by keeping a tradition alive and moving it into the future. This final volume of the The Selected Writings of Hans-Georg Gadamer also includes a thorough bibliography of Gadamer's available writings in English and key secondary studies of his philosophical hermeneutics. Available in English for the first time, Ancient Sources, Modern Appropriations is comprised of the most important of Gadamer's previously untranslated writings on ancient philosophy.

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Hans-Georg Gadamer was born on 11 February 1900 and died on 13 March 2002. He was the author, most notably, of Truth and Method, and, more recently, of The Beginning of Philosophy and The Beginning of Knowledge. Arun Iyer is an instructor in Philosophy at Seattle University, USA. He is the author of Towards an Epistemology of Ruptures: The Case of Heidegger and Foucault (2014). Pol Vandevelde is Professor of Philosophy at Marquette University, USA. His previous publications include tre et Discours: La Question du Langage dans L'itinraire de Heidegger (1927-1938) (1994) The Task of the Interpreter: Text, Meaning, and Negotiation (2005) and Heidegger and the Romantics: the Literary Invention of Meaning (2012).