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Gadamer, Hans-Georg --- Wittgenstein, Ludwig --- Language and languages --- Philosophy --- Wittgenstein, Ludwig, --- Wei-tʻe-ken-ssu-tʻan, --- Wei-tʻe-ken-ssu-tʻan, Lu-te-wei-hsi, --- Wittgenstein, L. --- Vitgenshteĭn, L., --- Wei-ken-ssu-tʻan, --- Pitʻŭgensyutʻain, --- Vitgenshteĭn, Li︠u︡dvig, --- Weitegenshitan, --- Wittgenstein, Ludovicus, --- Vitgenshtaĭn, Ludvig, --- ויטגנשטיין, לודוויג --- 维特根斯坦, --- Contributions in philosophy of language --- Gadamer, Hans Georg --- Wittgenstein, Ludwig Josef Johann,

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A Companion to Hermeneutics is a collection of original essays from leading international scholars that provide a definitive historical and critical compendium of philosophical hermeneutics; Offers a definitive historical, systematic, and critical compendium of hermeneutics ; Represents state-of-the-art thinking on the major themes, topics, concepts and figures of the hermeneutic tradition in philosophy and those who have influenced hermeneutic thought, including Kant, Hegel, Schleiermacher Dilthey, Heidegger, Gadamer, Ricoeur, Foucault, Habermas, and Rorty ; Explores the art and theory of interpretation as it intersects with a number of philosophical and inter-disciplinary areas, including humanism, theology, literature, politics, education and law ; Features contributions from an international cast of leading and upcoming scholars, who offer historically informed, philosophically comprehensive, and critically astute contributions in their individual fields of expertise ; Written to be accessible to interested non-specialists, as well as professional philosophers.

History of philosophy --- Theory of knowledge --- Hermeneutics --- Herméneutique --- Philosophy --- Knowledge, Theory of --- Herméneutique.

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German philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002) is a key figure in the 20th-century development of hermeneutics, the theory and practice of interpretation. He devised "philosophical hermeneutics," an elaborate account of the ways all our understanding of the world draw upon pre-existing engagements, which are linguistic in nature. He challenged a view, dominant in the modern age, that certain knowledge derives from the methodological procedures of a knowing subject. Gadamer's achievement was principally to construct a philosophical defence of the claims of the human sciences by presenting a hermeneutical account of knowledge and challenging the positivist legacy of Enlightenment thought. This entry begins with a brief biography. The next section outlines Gadamer's philosophical development followed by an overview of some of the key ideas in his seminal work, ...

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