Hans georg gadamer biography

Hans-Georg Gadamer, born Feb. 11, 1900 in Marburg, Germany, is best known for his important contribution to hermeneutics through his major work, Wahrheit und Methode (Truth and Method). His system of philosophical hermeneutics is a response, through an exploration of historicity, language, and art, to Wilhelm Dilthey, Edmund Husserl, and Martin Heidegger.

As Gadamer himself tells us-- 
 

As I was attempting to develop a philosophical hermeneutic, it followed from the previous history of hermeneutics that the interpretive (verstehenden) sciences provided my starting point.

But to these was added a hitherto neglected supplement.

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I am referring to the experience of art. For both art and the historical sciences are modes of experiencing in which our own understanding of existence comes directly into play..... My starting point was thus the critique of Idealism and its Romantic traditions.

It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired