Truth and Method, Volume II: A Translation of 20th Century Western Philosophy

Author: (German) Gadamer, H.G. (Author), Hong Handing (Translator)
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: Philosophical hermeneutics explores the fundamental conditions that make all human understanding activities possible. By researching and analyzing the various conditions and characteristics of "understanding," it discusses human experience in tradition, history, and the world, revealing the fundamental relationship between humans and the world within the finite historical existence of humanity. The book is divided into three parts: 1) The manifestation of the truth problem in artistic experience; 2) The expansion of the truth problem to the issue of understanding in the humanities; 3) A hermeneutic ontology turn centered on language. Gadamer's highly effective research in literature, the history of thought, aesthetics, and other fields has had a profound impact on various disciplines of the humanities, even being regarded as the methodological foundation of the humanities.