Hans-Georg Gadamer
Hans-Georg Gadamer | |
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Hans-Georg Gadamer, c. 2000 | |
| Born | 11 February 1900 |
| Died | 13 March 2002 (aged 102) |
| Education | |
| Alma mater | University of Breslau University of Marburg |
| Thesis | The Nature of Pleasure According to Plato's Dialogues (1922) |
| Doctoral advisor | Paul Natorp |
| Philosophical work | |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | |
| Institutions | University of Marburg (1928–1938) Leipzig University (1938–1948) Goethe University Frankfurt (1948–1949) University of Heidelberg (1949–2002) |
| Notable students | Charles Guignon Emilio Lledo Gianni Vattimo |
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Hans-Georg Gadamer (/ˈɡɑːdəmər/; German: [ˈɡaːdamɐ]; 11 February 1900 – 13 March 2002) was a German philosopher of the continental tradition, best known for his 1960 magnum opus on hermeneutics, Truth and Method (Wahrheit und Methode).