Hans-Georg Gadamer

Hans-Georg Gadamer
Wassili Lepanto and Hans-Georg Gadamer, c. 2000
Born	(1900-02-11)February 11, 1900 Marburg, German Empire
Died	March 13, 2002(2002-03-13) (aged 102) Heidelberg, Germany
Alma mater	University of Breslau University of Marburg (PhD, 1922)
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Continental philosophy Hermeneutics Ontological hermeneutics[1] Hermeneutic phenomenology[2]
Institutions	University of Marburg (1928–1938) Leipzig University (1938–1948) Goethe University Frankfurt (1948–1949) University of Heidelberg (1949–2002)
Main interests	Metaphysics Epistemology Language Ontology Aesthetics
Notable ideas	"Practical philosophy" "All products of a tradition stand within that tradition" Language as "unity of the infinite and finite" "Historically-effected" consciousness Fusion of horizons
Influences Schelling Plato Aristotle Augustine Kant Hegel Husserl Heidegger Jaspers
Influenced Babette Babich Habermas Henrich Hans Robert Jauss Koselleck Dennis J. Schmidt

Hans-Georg Gadamer (German: [ˈɡaːdamɐ]; February 11, 1900 – March 13, 2002) was a German philosopher. His philosophy was about the continental tradition. He was best known for his 1960 magnum opus Truth and Method (Wahrheit und Methode) on hermeneutics.

1. ↑ Jeff Malpas, Hans-Helmuth Gande (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Hermeneutics, Routledge, 2014, p. 259.
2. ↑ Hans-Georg Gadamer, "Towards a phenomenology of ritual and language", in Lawrence Kennedy Schmidt (ed.), Language and Linguisticality in Gadamer's Hermeneutics, Lexington Books, 2000, p. 30; James Hans, "Hans-Georg Gadamer and Hermeneutic Phenomenology," Philosophy Today 22 (1978), 3–19.