Beyond Being: Gadamer's Post-Platonic Hermeneutic Ontology (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780810115842)

Hans Georg-Gadamer is best known in the English-speaking world for his major work on philosophical hermeneutics, Truth and Method; he has also written extensively on the subject of Plato. Most commentators on Gadamer's work therefore view Gadamer either as a historian of philosophy or as a philosopher in his own right, critically engaged in the philosophical issues of our time.

In Beyond Being, Brice R. Wachterhauser contends that this perceived bifurcation in Gadamer's work oversimplifies and distorts important parts of Gadamer's thought. Wachterhauser argues that only by viewing Gadamer's contribution to philosophy as an integrated whole and by reading Gadamer's hermeneutical studies in light of his Plato studies are we able to avoid certain key misunderstandings of Gadamer, as well as to comprehend more clearly the radical implications of Gadamer's thought.


Author: Brice R. Wachterhauser
ISBN-10: 0810115840
ISBN-13: 9780810115842
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/17/1999
Pages: 215
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.81lbs
Size: 9.02h x 6.00w x 0.73d