Ancient Sources, Modern Appropriations

Hans-Georg Gadamer was born on 11 February 1900 and died on 13 March 2002. He was the author, most notably, of Truth and Method, and, more recently, of The Beginning of Philosophy and The Beginning of Knowledge. Arun Iyer is an instructor in Philosophy at Seattle University, USA. He is the author of Towards an Epistemology of Ruptures: The Case of Heidegger and Foucault (2014). Pol Vandevelde is Professor of Philosophy at Marquette University, USA. His previous publications include Être et Discours: La Question du Langage dans L'itinéraire de Heidegger (1927-1938) (1994) The Task of the Interpreter: Text, Meaning, and Negotiation (2005) and Heidegger and the Romantics: the Literary Invention of Meaning (2012).

Part I:
Introduction: History of Philosophy as Appropriation of a Tradition Pol Vandevelde and Arun Iyer

Part II: Ancient Philosophy
A. The Pre-Socratics
1. Parmenides or the Innerworldly Aspect of Being (Parmenides oder das Diesseits des Seins, 1988, Vol 7:1)
2. On the Divine in Early Greek Thinking (Über das Göttliche im frühen Denken der Griechen, 1970, Vol 6:9)
B. Plato
3. Plato's Utopian Thinking: A Lecture for Philologists (Platos Denken in Utopien: Ein Vortrag vor Philologen, 1983, Vol 7:9)
4. Mathematics and Dialectic in Plato (Mathematik und Dialektik bei Plato, 1982, Vol 7:10)
5. Dialectic is not Sophistic Thinking: What Theaetetus Learns in The Sophist (Dialektik ist nicht Sophistik: Theätet lernt das im Sophistes, 1990, Vol 7:13)

Part III: Modern Philosophy
6. Oetinger as a Philosopher (Oetinger als Philosoph, 1964, Vol 4:20)
7. Kant and the Question of God (Kant und die Gottesfrage, 1941, Vol 4:23)
8. Herder and the Historical World (Herder und die geschichtliche Welt, 1967, Vol 4:21)
9. Schleiermacher as a Platonist (Schleiermacher als Platoniker, 1969, Vol 4:25)
10. Hegel and Heraclitus (Hegel und Heraklit, 1990, Vol 7:2)
11. Hegel and the Historical Spirit (Hegel und der geschichtliche Geist, 1939, Vol 4:26)
12. Hegel and Heidelberg Romanticism (Hegel und die Heidelberger Romantik, 1961, Vol 4:27)

Part IV: Bibliography
A. Gadamer's Works in English
1. Books
2. Essays and Articles
B. Selected Secondary Sources
Index