Ancient Sources, Modern Appropriations The Selected Writings of Hans-Georg Gadamer: Volume III

Throughout his long career, Gadamer wrote and taught widely on the philosophy of the ancient world. In this volume, moving from the Pre-Socratics to Plato, Gadamer explores the legacy that ancient thought left for such philosophical giants as Kant, Schleiermacher and Hegel. Ancient Sources, Modern Appropriations also includes a substantial critical introduction in which the Editors reconstruct Gadamer's views on how the study of the history of philosophy contributes to the task of doing philosophy by keeping a tradition alive and moving it into the future. This final volume of the The Selected Writings of Hans-Georg Gadamer also includes a thorough bibliography of Gadamer's available writings in English and key secondary studies of his philosophical hermeneutics. Available in English for the first time, Ancient Sources, Modern Appropriations is comprised of the most important of Gadamer's previously untranslated writings on ancient philosophy. Cover Contents Acknowledgements Translators’ Preface Translators’ Introduction I What Do We Do When We Interpret? (by Pol Vandevelde) II On the Art of Reading (by Arun Iyer) Part I Ancient Philosophy 1 Parmenides or Why Being Pertains to This World (1988) 2 Plato’s Thinking through Utopias: A Lecture Addressed to Philologists (1983) 3 Mathematics and Dialectic in Plato (1982) 4 Dialectic Is not What Sophists Do: What Theaetetus Learns in the Sophist (1990) Part II Modern Philosophy 5 Oetinger as Philosopher (1964) 6 Herder and the Historical World (1967) 7 Schleiermacher as Platonist (1969) 8 Hegel and Heraclitus (1990) 9 Hegel and the Historical Spirit (1939) 10 Hegel and Heidelberg Romanticism (1961) 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