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In this selection of writings from Hans-Georg Gadamer`s Gesammelte Werke, here translated into English for the first time, the philosopher probes deeply into the hermeneutic significance of questions surrounding religion and ethics. Gadamer discusses such issues as the nature of moral behavior, ethics as a form of knowing, and the hermeneutic task of mediating ethos and philosophical ethics with one another. ... Read more

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Gadamer on Religion and Ethics
A splendid selection of essays dating from 1941 to 1989 and ranging from Kant to Greek philosophy from the PreSocratics to Plotinus.Topics center on ethics, friendship, religion, and science.The translation by Joel Weinsheimer is unfailingly felicitous.Gadamer is a splendid writer, and these essays are learned without being ponderous, wise, and warmly human.

Valuable Collection of Essays
This translation of ten important essays of the late Hans-Georg Gadamer by Joel Weinsheimer, distinguised translator of the recent Gadamer biography by Jean Grondin (Yale U. Press) and co-corrector of Gadamer's , TRUTH AND METHOD, revised translation, is a valuable contribution to the growing number of Gadamer's writings in English.It offers the following ten essays:
1. Kant and the Question of God (1941)
2. On the Possibility of a Philosophical Ethics (1963)
3. On the Divine in Early Greek Thought (1970)
4. The Ontological Problem of value (1971)
5. Thinking as Redemption: Plotinus between Plato and Augustine (1980)
6. Myth in the Age of Science (1981)
7. The Ethifs of Value and Practical Philosophy (1982)
8. Reflections on the Relation of Religion and Science (1984)
9. Friendship and Self-Knowledge: Reflections on the Role of Friendship in Greek Ethics.
10. Aristotle and Imperative Ethics [Kant].

The translation is deft and faithful and will be valuable to those seeking to see the relationship of Gadamer's hermeneutics to religion, science, and ethics.Highly recommended.

Richard E. Palmer
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This volume presents six lively conversations with Hans-GeorgGadamer (born 1900), one of the twentieth century's master philosophers. Looking backover his life and thought, Gadamer takes up key issues in his philosophy, addresses pointsof controversy, and replies to his critics, including those who accuse him of having beenin complicity with the Nazis. A genial and direct conversationalist, Gadamer is herecaptured at his best and most accessible.The interviews took place between 1989 and1996, and all but one appear in English for the first time in this volume. The first threeconversations, conducted by Heidelberg philosopher Carsten Dutt, deal withhermeneutics, aesthetics, and practical philosophy and the question of ethics. In a fourthconversation, with University of Heidelberg classics professor Glenn W. Most, Gadamerargues for the vital importance of the Greeks for our contemporary thinking. In the next,the philosopher reaffirms his connection with phenomenology and clarifies his relation toHusserl and Heidegger in a conversation with London philosopher Alfons Grieder. In thefinal interview, with German Nazi expert Dörte von Westernhagen, Gadamer describeshis life as a struggling young professor in Germany in the 1930s and refutes accusationsof his complicity with the Nazis. These conversations are a lucid introduction for readersnew to the philosopher's thought, and for experts they present an invaluable commentaryon Gadamer's most important themes. ... Read more

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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. ... Read more

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Title: Gadamer & the light of the word.(Hans-Georg Gadamer: A Biography)(Book Review)
Author: Edward Tingley
Publication: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Refereed)
Date: January 1, 2004
Publisher: Institute on Religion and Public Life
Issue: 139Page: 38(8)

Article Type: Book Review

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In this accessible collection of writings, now available together in English for the first time, renowned German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer explores important philosophical issues. He brings into sharp focus his thoughts on such topics as the power of language, the social role and influence of science, and the idea of reason. ... Read more