Ancient Sources, Modern Appropriations

Throughout his long career, Gadamer wrote and taught widely on the philosophy of the ancient world. In this volume, moving from the Pre-Socratics to Plato, Gadamer explores the legacy that ancient thought left for such philosophical giants as Kant, Schleiermacher and Hegel. also includes a substantial critical introduction in which the Editors reconstruct Gadamer''s views on how the study of the history of philosophy contributes to the task of doing philosophy by keeping a tradition alive and moving it into the future. This final volume of the The Selected Writings of Hans-Georg Gadamer also includes a thorough bibliography of Gadamer''s available writings in English and key secondary studies of his philosophical hermeneutics.Available in English for the first time, Ancient Sources, Modern Appropriations is comprised of the most important of Gadamer''s previously untranslated writings on ancient philosophy.>

Préface
Collects Gadamer's most important writings on ancient philosophy and its influence on later thinkers such as Kant and Hegel.

Auteur
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 Professor of Philosophy at The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India.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) (Académie Royale de Belgique, 1994) and The Task of the Interpreter: Text, Meaning, and Negotiation (2005).Arun Iyer is Professor of Philosophy at The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India.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) (Académie Royale de Belgique, 1994) and The Task of the Interpreter: Text, Meaning, and Negotiation (2005).

Contenu
Part I: Introduction: History of Philosophy as Appropriation of a Tradition Pol Vandevelde and Arun Iyer Part II: Ancient Philosophy A. The Pre-Socratics 1. Parmenides or the Innerworldly Aspect of Being (Parmenides oder das Diesseits des Seins, 1988, Vol 7:1) 2. On the Divine in Early Greek Thinking (Über das Göttliche im frühen Denken der Griechen, 1970, Vol 6:9) B. Plato 3. Plato's Utopian Thinking: A Lecture for Philologists (Platos Denken in Utopien: Ein Vortrag vor Philologen, 1983, Vol 7:9) 4. Mathematics and Dialectic in Plato (Mathematik und Dialektik bei Plato, 1982, Vol 7:10) 5. Dialectic is not Sophistic Thinking: What Theaetetus Learns in The Sophist (Dialektik ist nicht Sophistik: Theätet lernt das im Sophistes, 1990, Vol 7:13) Part III: Modern Philosophy 6. Oetinger as a Philosopher (Oetinger als Philosoph, 1964, Vol 4:20) 7. Kant and the Question of God (Kant und die Gottesfrage, 1941, Vol 4:23) 8. Herder and the Historical World (Herder und die geschichtliche Welt, 1967, Vol 4:21) 9. Schleiermacher as a Platonist (Schleiermacher als Platoniker, 1969, Vol 4:25) 10. Hegel and Heraclitus (Hegel und Heraklit, 1990, Vol 7:2) 11. Hegel and the Historical Spirit (Hegel und der geschichtliche Geist, 1939, Vol 4:26) 12. Hegel and Heidelberg Romanticism (Hegel und die Heidelberger Romantik, 1961, Vol 4:27) Part IV: Bibliography A. Gadamer's Works in English 1. Books 2. Essays and Articles B. Selected Secondary Sources Index