Hans-Georg Gadamer is remembered for arguments the next generation could not ignore.
The record lists Hans-Georg Gadamer as German philosopher (1900–2002).
Hans-Georg Gadamer was born at Marburg in 1900. His recorded nationality is Germany. He studied at University of Wrocław and University of Marburg.
Around the turn of the twentieth century philosophy split into traditions that largely stopped reading one another.
His academic posts were held at Heidelberg University, Goethe University Frankfurt and University of Marburg.
The recorded fields of work are philosophy, aesthetics and ontology.
Among his principal works are Truth and Method and The Relevance of the Beautiful and Other Essays. A philosophical position survives not by being proved but by resisting every attempt to dispose of it.
The honours record reads: Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg (1976), Hanns Martin Schleyer Prize (1987), Karl Jaspers Prize (1986) and Hegel Prize (1979).
That the work was done from Germany matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Hans-Georg Gadamer died in 2002, aged 102. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
Achievements
- Order of Merit of Baden-Württemberg — 1976
- Hanns Martin Schleyer Prize — 1987
- Karl Jaspers Prize — 1986
- Hegel Prize — 1979
- Sigmund Freud Prize — 1979
- Notable work: Truth and Method
- Notable work: The Relevance of the Beautiful and Other Essays
- Held posts at Heidelberg University, Goethe University Frankfurt and University of Marburg
- Fields: philosophy, aesthetics and ontology
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