The Gadamer Reader: A Bouquet of the Later Writings (Topics In Historical Philosophy)

About this book

The German volume Gadamer Lesebuch A Gadamer Reader (1997) selected and edited by Jean Grondin in consultation with Hans-Georg Gadamer himself contains a set of essays that present a cross section of writings by one of the twentieth centurys greatest philosophers. The volume begins with an autobiographical sketch and culminates in a conversation with Jean Grondin that looks back over a lifetime of productive philosophical work. The essays not already available in English have here been translated by Richard E. Palmer a respected translator of Gadamers writings. The sixteen essays contained in the Lesebuch are augmented here by three other essays: Gadamers last essay on Derrida "Hermeneutics Tracking the Trace" (1994) and two essays on practical philosophy. The Gadamer Reader: A Bouquet of the Later Writings richly conveys the scope and depth of Gadamers thought covering the range of his work in hermeneutics aesthetics practical philosophy and essays on Plato Hegel and Heidegger. In addition Palmer offers introductory remarks before each essay that explain its importance in the context of Gadamers writings and define its key terms. Throughout in both his translation and commentary his aim is to make this critically important philosopher as clear and accessible as possible to an English-speaking audience.