Author: Gadamer, Hans-Georg; Author: Translator Coltman, Rod
Paperback
132 pages
Published: April 2000
Continuum International Publishing Group
ISBN: 0826412254

Hans-Georg Gadamer's Truth and Method is generally considered to be the single most important twentieth century contribution to hermeunetics. The Beginning of Philosophy is Gadamer's bold exploration of philosophy and philology. In it, he peels away the layers of interpretation and misinterpretation that have built up over twenty-five hundred years of scholarship on the pre-Socratic philosophers.Ten lectures on the Pre-Socratic beginnings of philosophy. This is a study of the pre-Socratic philosophers, moving from such ancient interpreters as Simplicius and Diogenes Laertius to the 19th-century German historicists, to Hegel, Nietzsche and Heidegger.