Dialogue and Dialectic: Eight Hermeneutical Studies on Plato

by Hans-Georg Gadamer

Book Overview

"This book is a virtual case study in the application of hermeneutical principles to illuminate philosophical texts. The book contains translations of eight of Gadamer's best known essays on Plato....These studies, spanning a period of almost fifty years, are important not only for what they have to say concerning Plato, but also for what they reveal about the development and insightfulness of Gadamer's hermeneutical theory of interpretation....[He]...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300021267
• ISBN13: 9780300021264
• Release Date: January 1980
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 221 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.