Gadamer and the Transmission of History

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.

Author: Jerome Veith
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 02/02/2015
Pages: 239
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.69d
ISBN: 9780253015983

About the Author

Jerome Veith teaches at Seattle University. He is translator of The Heidegger Reader (IUP, 2009) and Günter Figal's Aesthetics as Phenomenology (IUP, 2014).