Gadamer

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Gadamer is written by Georgia Warnke and published by John Wiley & Sons. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0745678327 (ISBN 10) and 9780745678320 (ISBN 13).

Hans-Georg Gadamer is one of the leading philosophers in the worldtoday. His philosophical hermeneutics has had a major impact in awide range of disciplines, including the social sciences, literarycriticism, theology and jurisprudence. Truth and Method, his majorwork, is widely recognised to be one of the great classics oftwentieth-century thought. In this book Georgia Warnke provides a clear and systematicexposition of Gadamer's work, as well as a balanced and thoughtfulassessment of his views. Warnke gives particular attention to theways in which Gadamer's work has been taken up and criticised byliterary critics, social theorists and philosophers, such asHirsch, Habermas and Rorty. She thus provides an introduction toGadamer which demonstrates the relevance of his work to currentdebates in a variety of disciplines. This book will be invaluable to students and specialists throughoutthe humanities and social sciences, as well as to anyone who isinterested in the most important developments in contemporarythought.