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Article: Jean Grondin, Hans-Georg Gadamer: A Biography.(Book review)
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- The Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology
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- May 1, 2006
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JEAN GRONDIN, Hans-Georg Gadamer: A Biography. Transl. by Joel Weinsheimer. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2003, xiv + 472 p.
Hermeneutics as a philosophy, concept, method and, most importantly, as a critique of the limitations of a strictly methodological approach to understanding, is indelibly associated with the name of Hans-Georg Gadamer. Before his magnum opus (Truth and Method) was published in 1960, the term hermeneutics was generally relegated to an older theological tradition or to an aspect of Heidegger's earlier philosophy that he left behind after his famous turn. When Gadamer "presented his ... thick manuscript ... bearing the title Foundations of ...