Throughout his long career, Gadamer wrote and taught widely on the philosophy of the ancient world and on the connection between thinking and history. This volume exposes us to Gadamer''s late views on ancient philosophy, written between 1982 and 1990, his rehabilitation of certain eighteenth- and nineteenth-century thinkers (Oetinger, Herder and Schleiermacher) and his life-long contribution to our understanding of the significance of Hegel (from 1939 to 1990). They thus show us the transformation of his thinking on the history of philosophy over the different periods of his academic career. Ancient Sources, Modern Appropriations is a remarkable demonstration and illustration of how the study of the history of philosophy contributes to the task of doing philosophy by keeping a tradition alive and offering a future to the thinkers of the past. This third volume also includes a substantial critical introduction, a critical apparatus of notes, and several glossaries.

Autorentext
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 an independent scholar residing in Mumbai, India. He is the author of Towards an Epistemology of Ruptures: The Case of Heidegger and Foucault (2014) and the translator of Martin Heidegger's volume 67 of the Gesamtausgabe, Metaphysics and Nihilism (2022).Pol Vandevelde is the Donald J. Schuenke Chair in Philosophy at Marquette University, USA. He is the author of Être et Discours: La Question du Langage dans L'itinéraire de Heidegger (1927-1938) (1994), The Task of the Interpreter: Text, Meaning, and Negotiation (2005), Heidegger and the Romantics: the Literary Invention of Meaning (2012) and The Ethics of Interpretation: From Charity as a Principle to Love as a Hermeneutic Imperative (2023).Arun Iyer is an independent scholar residing in Mumbai, India. He is the author of Towards an Epistemology of Ruptures: The Case of Heidegger and Foucault (2014) and the translator of Martin Heidegger's volume 67 of the Gesamtausgabe, Metaphysics and Nihilism (2022).Pol Vandevelde is the Donald J. Schuenke Chair in Philosophy at Marquette University, USA. He is the author of Être et Discours: La Question du Langage dans L'itinéraire de Heidegger (1927-1938) (1994), The Task of the Interpreter: Text, Meaning, and Negotiation (2005), Heidegger and the Romantics: the Literary Invention of Meaning (2012) and The Ethics of Interpretation: From Charity as a Principle to Love as a Hermeneutic Imperative (2023).

Inhalt
Acknowledgements
Translators' Preface

Translators' Introduction
I What Do We Do When We Interpret? (by Pol Vandevelde)
II On the Art of Reading (by Arun Iyer)

Part I: Ancient Philosophy

1. Parmenides or Why Being Pertains to This World (1988)
2. Plato's Thinking through Utopias: A Lecture Addressed to Philologists (1983)
3. Mathematics and Dialectic in Plato (1982)

4. Dialectic Is not What Sophists Do: What Theaetetus Learns in the Sophist (1990)

   Part II: Modern Philosophy

5. Oetinger as Philosopher (1964)
6. Herder and the Historical World (1967)
7. Schleiermacher as Platonist (1969)
8. Hegel and Heraclitus (1990)
9. Hegel and the Historical Spirit (1939)

10. Hegel and Heidelberg Romanticism (1961)

    Notes
    Appendix: Glossary of German Terms
    Glossary of Ancient Greek Terms and Expressions
    Glossary of Other Foreign Terms and Expressions
    Works Cited by Gadamer
    Index of Names
    Index of subjects