This excellent collection contains 13 essays from Gadamer's Kleine Schriften, dealing with hermeneutical reflection, phenomenology, existential philosophy, and philosophical hermeneutics. Gadamer applies hermeneutical analysis to Heidegger and Husserl's phenomenology, an approach that proves critical and instructive.

CONTENTS:

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Editor's Introduction

Part 1: The Scope of Hermeneutical Reflection

I. The Universality of the Hermeneutical Problem
(1966)
2. On the Scope and Function of Hermeneutical
Reflection (1967)
3. On the Problem of Self-Understanding (1962)
4. Man and Language (1966)
5. The Nature of Things and the Language of
Things (1960)
6. Semantics and Hermeneutics (1972)
7. Aesthetics and Hermeneutics (1964)

Part II: Phenomenology, Existential Philosophy,
and Philosophical Hermeneutics

8. The Philosophical Foundations of the
Twentieth Century (1962)
9. The Phenomenological Movement (1963)
10. The Science of the Life-World (1969)
11. Martin Heidegger and Marburg Theology
(1964)
12. Heidegger's Later Philosophy (1960)
13. Heidegger and the Language of Metaphysics
(1967)

Index

AUTHOR:

Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002) was one of the most important German philosophers of the twentieth century. His magnum opus, Truth and Method, was decisive in the development of hermeneutics.