Ethics, Aesthetics and the Historical Dimension of Language

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 Professor of Philosophy at The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India. Pol Vandevelde is Professor of Contemporary French and German philosophy at Marquette University, USA.

Translators’ Introduction
I. Language and Ontology, Pol Vandevelde (Marquette University, USA)
II. The Situated Truth of a Work of Art, Arun Iyer (The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)

Part 1 Ancient Ethics and Practical Philosophy
1. The Socratic Question and Aristotle (1990)
2. Aristotle’s Protrepticus in Consideration of the Historical Development of Aristotle’s Ethics (1928)
3. Heidegger and the Greeks (1990)
4. The Idea of Practical Philosophy (1983)
5. Reason and Practical Philosophy (1986)

Part 2 Aesthetics
6. On Poetics and Hermeneutics (1968/1971)
7. The End of Art? From Hegel’s Doctrine of the Pastness of Art to the Anti-art of Today (1985)
8. The Place of Poetry in the System of Hegelian Aesthetics and the Question of the Pastness of Art (1986)
9. Conceptual Painting? On Arnold Gehlen’s Time-Pictures (1962)
10. On the Reading of Buildings and Paintings (1979)
11. Poetizing and Thinking as Reflected through Hölderlin’s Remembrance (1987)
12. Goethe and Mozart – the Problem of Opera (1991)
13. The Lynceus Tower Song in Goethe’s Faust (1982)
14. What Makes Goethe’s Language Natural? A Congress Contribution (1985)

Part 3 The Dimension of Language
15. Language and Understanding (1970)
16. The Theory of History and Language (1987)
17. Of Teachers and Learners (1986)
18. Heidegger and Language (1990)
19. Homeland and Language (1992)
20. On the Way to Writing? (1983)
21. Voice and Language (1981)
22. Hearing – Seeing – Reading (1984)
23. Reading Is like Translating (1989)

Notes
Appendix: Glossary of German Terms
Glossary of Ancient Greek Terms and Expressions
Glossary of Other Foreign Terms and Expressions
Works Cited by Gadamer
Index of Names
Index of Subjects