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This volume presents six lively conversations with Hans-Georg Gadamer (born 1900), one of the twentieth century's master philosophers. Looking back over his life and thought, Gadamer takes up key issues in his philosophy, addresses points of controversy, and replies to his critics, including those who accuse him of having been in complicity with the Nazis. A genial and direct conversationalist, Gadamer is here captured at his best and most accessible. The interviews took place between 1989 and 1996, and all but one appear in English for the first time in this volume. The first three conversations, conducted by Heidelberg philosopher Carsten Dutt, deal with hermeneutics, aesthetics, and practical philosophy and the question of ethics. In a fourth conversation, with University of Heidelberg classics professor Glenn W. Most, Gadamer argues 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 to Husserl and Heidegger in a conversation with London philosopher Alfons Grieder. In the final interview, with German Nazi expert Dorte von Westernhagen, Gadamer describes his life

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• Preface(p. vii)
• Introduction(p. 1)
• Part I Gadamer in Conversation(p. 31)
• Preface(p. 33)
• 1 Hermeneutics(p. 36)
• 2 Aesthetics(p. 61)
• 3 Practical Philosophy(p. 78)
• Part II Three Other Conversations(p. 87)
• 4 The Greeks, Our Teachers(p. 89)
• 5 On Phenomenology(p. 103)
• 6 "The real Nazis had no interest at all in us ..."(p. 115)
• Bibliographical Appendix A Translations of Hermeneutik-Asthetik-Praktische Philosophie: Hans-Georg Gadamer im Gesprach(p. 133)
• Bibliographical Appendix B English-Language Books By and About Gadamer(p. 134)
• Bibliographical Appendix C How to Find Theses, Articles, and Other Writings By and About Gadamer(p. 140)
• Notes(p. 145)
• Index(p. 167)

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CHOICE Review

Scholars will greatly welcome the six important interviews that Palmer (MacMurray College) has selected and translated here on Gadamer and his work. The first three were originally published in German in 1993 by Carsten Dutt. The first interview focuses, among other things, on some key concepts from Truth and Method: method, rehabilitation of prejudice and tradition, and finally, Gadamer's rejection of Heidegger's quest for a new language and communicative consciousness. The second interview then discusses Gadamerian aesthetics and the work(ing) of art, as well as Gadamer's relationship to deconstruction and reader-response theory. The third interview takes up Gadamer's many discussions of phronesis, or ethical judgment, and its socially embedded and linguistic character. The fourth interview, by the classicist Glenn Most, then illuminates the important role Greek philosophy has played in Gadamer's thinking. The sixth interview, by Alfons Grieder, discusses Gadamer's place in the phenomenological tradition. Finally, and perhaps most urgently, the sixth interview, with Dorte von Westernhagen, allows Gadamer to respond to her book Die Kinder der Tater (1987, 1991), which is critical of him and other professors as Nazi collaborators. This is highly recommended for any collection that supports contemporary Continental philosophy. Upper-division undergraduates and above. R. M. Stewart Austin College

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Hans-Georg Gadamer is the father of contemporary philosophical hermeneutics. He was born and educated in Marburg, Germany, where he studied under Martin Heidegger. Shortly after World War II, he was appointed professor of philosophy at Heidelberg University, a position that he held for almost 20 years, until he retired in 1968. His work seeks a recovery of the Greek sense of a comprehensive and coherent worldview, which he believes has been lost in the fragmentation of modern industrial culture. Gadamer has written major studies of Plato, Aristotle, and Georg Hegel. He is known for opposing science as it is developed and valued in Enlightenment thought.

Gadamer's major contribution has been his work in hermeneutics, an approach that seeks to liberate the humanistic interpretation of experience from the strictures of science and technology, challenging the doctrine that truth is correspondence between an external fact and an idea in the mind of a subject. In place of mechanistic perspectives that regard nature as nothing but raw material for human manipulation, philosophical hermeneutics aims to develop a broader interpretation of experience by showing that all experience is conditioned by history. Thus, various investigations of the same subject can lead to different conclusions. Only interpretation provides the means to understand how this can occur and also to open culture once again to the voices of art. As developed by Gadamer, hermeneutics engages tradition critically so that culture can become alert to its own moral horizons and thereby restore a continuity of thought and practice.

(Bowker Author Biography)