Hermeneutics, Religion, and Ethics (Yale Studies in Hermeneutics) [Hardcover]

Hans-Georg Gadamer (Author), Professor Joel Weinsheimer (Translator)

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Series: Yale Studies in Hermeneutics | Publication Date: December 11, 1999

In the years shortly before and after the publication of his classic Truth and Method (1960), the eminent German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer returned often to questions surrounding religion and ethics. In this selection of writings from Gesammelte Werke that are here translated into English for the first time, Gadamer probes deeply into the hermeneutic significance of these subjects.

Gadamer raises issues of importance to ethicists and theologians as well as students of language and literature. In such outstanding essays as "Kant and the Question of God, " "Thinking as Redemption: Plotinus between Plato and Augustine, " and "Friendship and Self-Knowledge: Reflections on the Role of Friendship in Greek Ethics, " Gadamer discusses the nature of moral behavior, ethics as a form of knowing, and the hermeneutic task of mediating ethos and philosophical ethics with one another.

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"Weinsheimer . . . presents an important selection of articles from Hans-Georg Gadamer's Gesammelte Werke." -- Choice

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Text: English (translation)
Original Language: German

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• Hardcover: 192 pages
• Publisher: Yale University Press (December 11, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0300074077
• ISBN-13: 978-0300074079
• Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.9 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces
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5.0 out of 5 stars Valuable Collection of Essays, September 30, 2005

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This review is from: Hermeneutics, Religion, and Ethics (Yale Studies in Hermeneutics) (Hardcover)

This translation of ten important essays of the late Hans-Georg Gadamer by Joel Weinsheimer, distinguised translator of the recent Gadamer biography by Jean Grondin (Yale U. Press) and co-corrector of Gadamer's , TRUTH AND METHOD, revised translation, is a valuable contribution to the growing number of Gadamer's writings in English. It offers the following ten essays:
1. Kant and the Question of God (1941)
2. On the Possibility of a Philosophical Ethics (1963)
3. On the Divine in Early Greek Thought (1970)
4. The Ontological Problem of value (1971)
5. Thinking as Redemption: Plotinus between Plato and Augustine (1980)
6. Myth in the Age of Science (1981)
7. The Ethifs of Value and Practical Philosophy (1982)
8. Reflections on the Relation of Religion and Science (1984)
9. Friendship and Self-Knowledge: Reflections on the Role of Friendship in Greek Ethics.
10. Aristotle and Imperative Ethics [Kant].

The translation is deft and faithful and will be valuable to those seeking to see the relationship of Gadamer's hermeneutics to religion, science, and ethics. Highly recommended.

Richard E. Palmer
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5.0 out of 5 stars Gadamer on Religion and Ethics, November 9, 2006

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This review is from: Hermeneutics, Religion, and Ethics (Yale Studies in Hermeneutics) (Hardcover)

A splendid selection of essays dating from 1941 to 1989 and ranging from Kant to Greek philosophy from the PreSocratics to Plotinus. Topics center on ethics, friendship, religion, and science. The translation by Joel Weinsheimer is unfailingly felicitous. Gadamer is a splendid writer, and these essays are learned without being ponderous, wise, and warmly human.