Hans-Georg Gadamer
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- Series: World Philosophers and Their Works
- Categories: Philosophy, Literature, Publishing, Language, Linguistics, Philology
- Subcategories: Authors, Writers, Philosophers
- Curriculum: 20th & 21st Century European History, German History
Article abstract: Gadamer framed a position that became known as philosophical hermeneutics, which stresses meaning and truth in a text and examines the relationship between the text’s tradition and its interpreter.
Early Life
Hans-Georg Gadamer was born on February 11, 1900, in Marburg, Germany, home of the neo-Kantian philosophers Hermann Cohen and Paul Natorp. His father, Johann Gadamer, was a professor of pharmaceutical chemistry at the local university. A bashful and immature young man, Gadamer began to study philosophy in 1918, against his...
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