Description
Observing that humans often deal with the past in problematic ways, Jerome Veith looks to philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer and his hermeneutics to clarify these conceptions of history and to present ways to come to terms with them. Veith fully engages Truth and Method as well as Gadamer's entire work and relationships with other German philosophers, especially Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger in this endeavor. Veith considers questions about language, ethics, cosmopolitanism, patriotism, self-identity, and the status of the humanities in the academy in this very readable application of Gadamer's philosophical practice.
About the Author
Jerome Veith teaches at Seattle University. He is translator of The Heidegger Reader (IUP, 2009) and Gunter Figal's Aesthetics as Phenomenology (IUP, 2014).
Reviews
[This] book should prove to be a valuable resource not only to philosophers interested in Gadamer's account of history but those of Kant, Hegel, and Heidegger as well.
* Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *Book Information
ISBN 9780253015983
Author Jerome Veith
Format Hardback
Page Count 239
Imprint Indiana University Press
Publisher Indiana University Press
Weight(grams) 535g
