{"title":"Hans-Georg Gadamer","description":"\u003cp\u003eHans-Georg Gadamer's works delve deeply into the nature of understanding, exploring themes such as hermeneutics, philosophy of language, and the historical context of knowledge. His writings challenge readers to consider how interpretation shapes truth and meaning within both ancient and modern frameworks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom the ethics of dialogue to the aesthetics of experience, Gadamer's philosophy invites reflection on how history and thought intertwine. These texts offer profound insights for anyone interested in the foundations of philosophy and the continuing dialogue between past and present.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"ethics-aesthetics-and-the-historical-dimension-of-language-by-hans-georg-gadamer-9781350237650","title":"Ethics, Aesthetics and the Historical Dimension of Language","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEthics, Aesthetics and the Historical Dimension of Language\u003c\/i\u003e collects together Gadamer's most important untranslated writings on ethics, aesthetics, and language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith a substantial introduction by the editors exploring Gadamer's ethical project and providing an overview of his aesthetic work, this book collects Gadamer's writings on ancient ethics, including the moral philosophy of Aristotle, and on practical philosophy (first section).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn the second section, Gadamer's writings on art are collected, including his examination of poetry, opera, and painting among other art forms. The third section comprises Gadamer’s essays on language in its historical dimension.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis important collection is a useful resource for scholars in philosophy, particularly those studying hermeneutics, continental, 20th-century, and German philosophy.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000614109420,"sku":"9781350237650","price":95.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/20288783482668.jpg?v=1763289313"},{"product_id":"hermeneutics-between-history-and-philosophy-by-hans-georg-gadamer-9781350091405","title":"Hermeneutics between History and Philosophy","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eHermeneutics between History and Philosophy\u003c\/i\u003e collects together Gadamer's remaining important untranslated writings on the problem of history and the major philosophical traditions of the 20th century from the standpoint of hermeneutics. In these writings, Gadamer examines important thinkers such as Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Bourdieu, and Habermas and their ongoing legacies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis volume also includes a preface by the editors, who are also the translators, presenting the structure of the volume, a substantial introduction situating Gadamer's particular project, and examining the place of hermeneutics vis-à-vis the disciplines of history and philosophy in the 20th century.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe translation is followed by a glossary of German terms along with Greek and Latin expressions, as well as a bibliography of all the works cited and alluded to by Gadamer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000635015404,"sku":"9781350091405","price":78.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/18826333482668.jpg?v=1763291884"},{"product_id":"the-beginning-of-philosophy-by-hans-georg-gadamer-9781474294461","title":"The Beginning of Philosophy","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eThe Beginning of Philosophy\u003c\/em\u003e, Gadamer explores the layers of interpretation and misinterpretation that have built up over 2500 years of Presocratic scholarship. Using Plato and Aristotle as his starting point, his analysis moves effortlessly from Simplicius and Diogenes Laertius to the 19th-century German historicists, right through to Hegel, Nietzsche, and Heidegger.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGadamer shows us how some of the earliest philosophical concepts, such as truth, equality, nature, spirit, and being, came to be and how our understanding of them today is deeply indebted to Presocratic thinkers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe book is based on a series of lectures delivered by Gadamer in 1967, which were then translated into English and edited by Gadamer for this collection. This is a major philosophical-historical work from one of the 20th century’s greatest thinkers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000765137132,"sku":"9781474294461","price":51.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/25082133482712.jpg?v=1763303066"},{"product_id":"the-beginning-of-knowledge-by-hans-georg-gadamer-9781474294331","title":"The Beginning of Knowledge","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Beginning of Knowledge\u003c\/i\u003e brings together almost all of Gadamer’s essays on the Presocratics. In each of the essays, Gadamer discusses the origins of knowledge in the western philosophical tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBeginning with a hermeneutical and philological investigation of the Heraclitus fragments, he moves on to a discussion of the Greek Atomists and the Presocratic cosmologists. In the final two essays, he elaborates on the profound debt that modern science owes to the Greeks and shows how their works have shaped modern-day physics, mathematics, and medicine.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe philosophers discussed include Plato, Aristotle, Socrates, Anaximander, Heraclitus, and Parmenides. This is a major work from one of the 20th century’s greatest thinkers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000765169900,"sku":"9781474294331","price":51.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/25080833482712.jpg?v=1763303071"},{"product_id":"truth-and-method-by-hans-georg-gadamer-9781780936246","title":"Truth and Method","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eTruth and Method\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn arguing that ‘truth’ and ‘method’ acted in opposition to each other, Gadamer examined the ways in which historical and cultural circumstances 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 Jürgen Habermas and many others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47000831000812,"sku":"9781780936246","price":60.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/2063083482822.jpg?v=1763308561"},{"product_id":"hegels-dialectic-by-hans-georg-gadamer-9780300028423","title":"Hegel's Dialectic","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese five essays on Hegel give the English-speaking reader a long-awaited opportunity to read the work of one of Germany's most distinguished philosophers, \u003cem\u003eHans-Georg Gadamer\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGadamer's unique hermeneutic method will have a lasting effect on Hegel studies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47470771437804,"sku":"9780300028423","price":41.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780300028423-hegel-s-dialectic.jpg?v=1775226841"},{"product_id":"ancient-sources-modern-appropriations-by-hans-georg-gadamer-9781350512337","title":"Ancient Sources, Modern Appropriations","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThroughout his long career, Gadamer wrote and taught widely on the philosophy of the ancient world and on the connection between thinking and history. This volume exposes us to Gadamer’s late views on ancient philosophy, written between 1982 and 1990, his rehabilitation of certain eighteenth- and nineteenth-century thinkers (Oetinger, Herder, and Schleiermacher), and his life-long contribution to our understanding of the significance of Hegel (from 1939 to 1990). They thus show us the transformation of his thinking on the history of philosophy over the different periods of his academic career.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAncient Sources, Modern Appropriations\u003c\/i\u003e is a remarkable demonstration and illustration of how the study of the history of philosophy contributes to the task of doing philosophy by keeping a tradition alive and offering a future to the thinkers of the past. 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