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Truth and method

By Hans-Georg , Gadamer

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic; Continuum
Year
1998
ISBN
1780936249, 9781780936246, 9781780936000, 1780936001
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2292756 bytes)
Series
Bloomsbury revelations
Edition
2nd rev. ed
Pages
664\665
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
Humanities Methodology Hermeneutics Aesthetics Phi

Description

Truth and Method is a landmark work of 20th century thought which established Hans Georg-Gadamer as one of the most important philosophical voices of the 20th Century. In this book, Gadamer established the field of ‘philosophical hermeneutics': exploring the nature of knowledge, the book rejected traditional quasi-scientific approaches to establishing cultural meaning that were prevalent after the war. In arguing the ‘truth' and ‘method' acted in opposition to each other, Gadamer examined the ways in which historical and cultural circumstance fundamentally influenced human understanding. It was an approach that would become hugely influential in the humanities and social sciences and remains so to this day in the work of Jurgen Habermas and many others.

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