Ancient Sources, Modern Appropriations

Hans-Georg Gadamer was born on 11 February 1900 and died on 13 March 2002. He was the author, most notably, of Truth and Method, and, more recently, of The Beginning of Philosophy and The Beginning of Knowledge.Arun Iyer is an instructor in Philosophy at Seattle University, USA. He is the author of Towards an Epistemology of Ruptures: The Case of Heidegger and Foucault (2014).Pol Vandevelde is Professor of Philosophy at Marquette University, USA. His previous publications include Être et Discours: La Question du Langage dans L'itinéraire de Heidegger (1927-1938) (1994) The Task of the Interpreter: Text, Meaning, and Negotiation (2005) and Heidegger and the Romantics: the Literary Invention of Meaning (2012).

The third in Vandeverlde and Iyer’s excellent series, this volume makes accessible in English a selection of essays from the Gesammelte Werke that foreground Gadamer’s engagement with the history of philosophy providing new insights into his reading of Plato and Hegel, as well as of Parmenides, Heraclitus, Oetinger, Herder and Schleiermacher. The translated texts are supplemented by a glossary and an extensive introductory essay. Thanks are due to Vandevelde and Iyer for yet another important addition to the growing body of Gadamer’s work available in English.

• AcknowledgementsTranslators’ PrefaceTranslators’ IntroductionI What Do We Do When We Interpret? (by Pol Vandevelde)II On the Art of Reading (by Arun Iyer)Part I: Ancient Philosophy1. Parmenides or Why Being Pertains to This World (1988)2. Plato’s Thinking through Utopias: A Lecture Addressed to Philologists (1983)3. Mathematics and Dialectic in Plato (1982)4. Dialectic Is not What Sophists Do: What Theaetetus Learns in the Sophist (1990)Part II: Modern Philosophy5. Oetinger as Philosopher (1964)6. Herder and the Historical World (1967)7. Schleiermacher as Platonist (1969)8. Hegel and Heraclitus (1990)9. Hegel and the Historical Spirit (1939)10. Hegel and Heidelberg Romanticism (1961)NotesAppendix: Glossary of German TermsGlossary of Ancient Greek Terms and ExpressionsGlossary of Other Foreign Terms and ExpressionsWorks Cited by GadamerIndex of NamesIndex of subjects