Hans-Georg Gadamer: A Biography

by Jean Grondin

Book Overview

The first English-language biography of one of the leading intellectuals of the twentieth century

Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002) was one of the greatest philosophers of our era. He was also at the center of some of the century's darkest, most complex historical events, for he chose to remain in his native Germany in the 1930s, neither supporting Hitler nor actively opposing him, but negotiating instead an "unpolitical" position that...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300180160
• ISBN13: 9780300180169
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 528 Pages
• Weight: 1.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"