Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002) was one of the most important German philosophers of the twentieth century. His magnum opus, Truth and Method, was decisive in the development of hermeneutics.

• AcknowledgmentsAbbreviationsEditor's IntroductionPart 1: The Scope of Hermeneutical ReflectionI. The Universality of the Hermeneutical Problem(1966)2. On the Scope and Function of HermeneuticalReflection (1967)3. On the Problem of Self-Understanding (1962)4. Man and Language (1966)5. The Nature of Things and the Language ofThings (1960)6. Semantics and Hermeneutics (1972)7. Aesthetics and Hermeneutics (1964)Part II: Phenomenology, Existential Philosophy,and Philosophical Hermeneutics8. The Philosophical Foundations of theTwentieth Century (1962)9. The Phenomenological Movement (1963)10. The Science of the Life-World (1969)11. Martin Heidegger and Marburg Theology(1964)12. Heidegger's Later Philosophy (1960)13. Heidegger and the Language of Metaphysics(1967)Index