Hans-Georg Gadamer on Education, Poetry, and History: Applied Hermeneutics

by Dieter Misgeld

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In these essays, appearing for the first time in English, Gadamer addresses practical questions about recent politics in Europe, about education and university reform, and about the role of poetry in the modern world. This book also includes a series of interviews that the editors conducted in 1986. Gadamer elaborates on his experiences in education and politics, touching on the collapse of the Weimar Republic, the early Frankfurt School, Heidegger and the Nazis, university life in East show more Germany, and the prospects for Europe in the coming years.Hans-Georg Gadamer was probably Heidegger's leading interpreter in Germany, and in the 1950s and 1960s he became the world's leading exponent of hermeneutics. His hermeneutical theory explains how it is that ancient art and philosophy still speak to us today. His influential idea of the "fusion of horizons" also shows how it is that we understand what is remote form our own culture. show less

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Philosophy, Nonfiction, Religion & Spirituality, History, Poetry
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193Philosophy & psychologyModern western philosophyPhilosophy of Germany and Austria
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B3248 .G32 .E5Philosophy, Psychology and ReligionPhilosophy (General)By periodModernBy region or country
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