Gadamer''s Truth and Method - A Polyphonic Commentary

This book offers a fresh look at Gadamer's magnum opus, Truth and Method, which is widely recognized as a ground-breaking text of philosophical hermeneutics. The volume features essays from fourteen scholars who cover a portion of Truth and Method.

List of contents

Introduction
1. Introduction (Greg Lynch and Cynthia Nielsen)
2. Greg Lynch, North Central College: "What is the question to which Truth and Method is
the answer?"
Part 1: Art
1. Theodore George, Texas A&M University (TM I.1.1)
2. Nicholas Davey, University of Dundee (TM I.1.2)
3. Jessica Frazier, University of Oxford (TM I.2.1)
4. Daniel Tate, St. Bonaventure University (TM I.1.3)
5. Cynthia Nielsen, University of Dallas (TM I.2.2)
Part 2: Tradition, History, and the Human Sciences
1. Kevin Vander Schel, Gonzaga University (TM II.1.1)
2. Eric Nelson, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (TM II.1.2)
3. Carolyn Culbertson, Florida Gulf Coast University (TM II.2.1)
4. David Liakos, Houston Community College (TM II.2.2)
5. Jerome Veith, Seattle University (TM II.2.3)
Part 3: Language and Linguisticality
1. Carlo DaVia, Fordham University (TM III.1)
2. Gert-Jan van der Heiden, Radboud University (TM III.2)
3. James Risser, Seattle University (TM III.3)
Index

About the author

Edited by Cynthia R. Nielsen and Greg Lynch

Summary

This volume features essays from fourteen scholars—both established and rising stars—each of which cover a portion of Truth and Method following the order of the text itself. The result is a robust, historically and thematically rich polyphonic reading of the text as a whole, valuable both for scholarship and teaching

Product details

• Authors: Greg Nielsen Lynch, Cynthia Lynch Nielsen, Cynthia R. Lynch Nielsen
• Assisted by: Greg Lynch (Editor), Cynthia Nielsen (Editor), Cynthia R. Nielsen (Editor), Nielsen Cynthia R. (Editor)
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2022
• EAN: 9781538167946
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-6794-6
• No. of pages: 306
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / General, Philosophy, PHILOSOPHY / Hermeneutics, Translation & interpretation, Topics in philosophy, History of philosophy, philosophical traditions