Truth and Method, Volume 1: 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. Through research and analysis of the various conditions and characteristics of "understanding," it discusses human experience within 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 problem of truth in artistic experience 2. The expansion of the problem of truth to the problem of understanding in the humanities 3. The hermeneutic turn to ontology centered on language. The author's highly effective research in literature, the history of thought, aesthetics, and other fields has had a significant impact on various disciplines within the humanities, even being regarded as the methodological foundation of the humanities.