Claiming that human understanding is circular because we comprehend the whole through its parts and vice versa, he views it not as an act, but as an experience.
Claiming that human understanding is circular because we comprehend the whole through its parts and vice versa, he views it not as an act, but as an experience. His minor works include Dialogue and Dialectic and The Relevance of the Beautiful. Assuming Karl Jaspers' former post at the University of Heidelberg, he co-founded a preeminent philosophical journal and became renowned for using in his lectures the kind of dialogue that lies at the core of his project. His more famous debate partners include JŸrgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida. A precocious student, he obtained his doctorate at age 22 before studying under Husserl and Heidegger. FTP, name this philosopher whose 1960 work Truth and Method is a landmark of 20th-Century hermeneutical theory.
Claiming that human understanding is circular because we comprehend the whole through its parts and vice versa, he views it not as an act, but as an experience.
Hans-Georg {Gadamer}