Ethics, Aesthetics and the Historical Dimension of Language

Hans-Georg Gadamer was born on 11 February 1900 and died on 13 March 2002. He was the author, most notably, of Truth and Method, and, more recently, of The Beginning of Philosophy and The Beginning of Knowledge.Arun Iyer is Professor of Philosophy at The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India.Pol Vandevelde is Professor of Contemporary French and German philosophy at Marquette University, USA.

Ethics, Aesthetics and the Historical Dimension of Language collects together Gadamer's most important untranslated writings on ethics, aesthetics and language.With a substantial introduction by the editors exploring Gadamer's ethical project and providing an overview of his aesthetic work, this book collects Gadamer's writings on ancient ethics, including the moral philosophy of Aristotle, and on practical philosophy (first section). In the second section, Gadamer's writings on art are collected, including his examination of poetry, opera and painting among other art forms. The third section comprises Gadamer's essays on language in its historical dimension.This important collection is a useful resource for scholars in philosophy, studying hermeneutics, continental, 20th-century and German philosophy.

Collects what are widely regarded as the most important texts of Gadamer's previously untranslated essays on ethics, aesthetics and language

Translators' IntroductionI. Language and Ontology, Pol Vandevelde (Marquette University, USA)II. The Situated Truth of a Work of Art, Arun Iyer (The Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, India)Part 1 Ancient Ethics and Practical Philosophy1. The Socratic Question and Aristotle (1990)2. Aristotle's Protrepticus in Consideration of the Historical Development of Aristotle's Ethics (1928)3. Heidegger and the Greeks (1990)4. The Idea of Practical Philosophy (1983)5. Reason and Practical Philosophy (1986)Part 2 Aesthetics6. On Poetics and Hermeneutics (1968/1971)7. The End of Art? From Hegel's Doctrine of the Pastness of Art to the Anti-art of Today (1985)8. The Place of Poetry in the System of Hegelian Aesthetics and the Question of the Pastness of Art (1986)9. Conceptual Painting? On Arnold Gehlen's Time-Pictures (1962)10. On the Reading of Buildings and Paintings (1979)11. Poetizing and Thinking as Reflected through Hölderlin's Remembrance (1987)12. Goethe and Mozart - the Problem of Opera (1991)13. The Lynceus Tower Song in Goethe's Faust (1982)14. What Makes Goethe's Language Natural? A Congress Contribution (1985)Part 3 The Dimension of Language15. Language and Understanding (1970)16. The Theory of History and Language (1987)17. Of Teachers and Learners (1986)18. Heidegger and Language (1990)19. Homeland and Language (1992)20. On the Way to Writing? (1983)21. Voice and Language (1981)22. Hearing - Seeing - Reading (1984)23. Reading Is like Translating (1989)NotesAppendix: Glossary of German TermsGlossary of Ancient Greek Terms and ExpressionsGlossary of Other Foreign Terms and ExpressionsWorks Cited by GadamerIndex of NamesIndex of Subjects