TY - BOOK ID - 77893032 TI - Gadamer : a philosophical portrait AU - Di Cesare, Donatella. AU - Keane, Niall. PY - 2013 SN - 0253007682 1283979500 9780253007681 0253007631 9780253007636 9781283979504 PB - Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Gadamer, Hans-Georg, KW - Gadamer, Hans-Georg KW - Filosofi KW - Hermeneutik KW - Philosophers UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77893032 AB - Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002), one of the towering figures of contemporary Continental philosophy, is best known for Truth and Method, where he elaborated the concept of ""philosophical hermeneutics,"" a programmatic way to get to what we do when we engage in interpretation. Donatella Di Cesare highlights the central place of Greek philosophy, particularly Plato, in Gadamer's work, brings out differences between his thought and that of Heidegger, and connects him with discussions and debates in pragmatism. This is a sensitive and thoroughly readable philosophical portrait of one of the 20t ER -