Gadamer biography grondin

German philosopher (1900–2002)

Hans-Georg Gadamer (; German:[ˈɡaːdamɐ]; 11 February 1900 – 13 March 2002) was a German philosopher of the continental tradition, best known for his 1960 magnum opus on hermeneutics, Truth and Method (Wahrheit und Methode).

Life

Family and early life

Gadamer was born in Marburg, Germany, the son of Johannes Gadamer (1867–1928), a pharmaceutical chemistry professor who later also served as the rector of the University of Marburg.

Gadamer biography grondin

He was raised a Protestant Christian.^[6] Gadamer resisted his father's urging to take up the natural sciences and became more and more interested in the humanities. His mother, Emma Karoline Johanna Geiese (1869–1904) died of diabetes while Hans-Georg was four years old, and he later noted that this may have had an effect on his decision not to pursue scientific studies.

Jean Grondin describes Gadamer as finding in his mother "a poetic and almost religious counterpar