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    Language and Linguisticality in Gadamer's Hermeneutics (edited book)
    with Lawrence K. Schmidt, Fred Dallmayr, Nicholas Davey, István M. Fehér, Hans-Georg Gadamer, John Sallis, Christopher Smith, and Ben Vedder
    Lexington Books. 2000.
    In this book, internationally recognized scholars in philosophical hermeneutics discuss various aspects of language and linguisticality. The translations of Hans-Georg Gadamer's two recent essays provoke a preliminary discussion on the philosopher's polemic claim in Truth and Method—"Being that can be understood is language." Topics addressed by the contributors include the relationship of rituals to tradition and the immemorial; the unity of the word; conversation; translation and conceptuality…Read more
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    Looking Back with Gadamer Over his Writings and their Effective History
    with Hans-Georg Gadamer
    Theory, Culture and Society 23 (1): 85-100. 2006.
    In this interview with Jean Grondin, Gadamer discusses the meaning ‘linguisticality’ and acknowledges his intellectual debt to Heidegger, Augustine, Vico and classical Greek philosophy. Heidegger’s influence on Gadamer can be seen in Gadamer’s awareness of pernicious ontological effects of the Latinization of European language, his awareness of the centrality of technology to the understanding of contemporary philosophical problems and the idea that ‘language speaks’. From Augustine, Gadamer der…Read more
  • _English summary:_ Hans-Georg Gadamer was one of the most outstanding philosophers of the 20th century. In his main work, _Truth and Method_, published in 1960, he raised hermeneutics to an essential component of contemporary philosophy. Jean Grondin engaged in intensive research in a number of archives and interviewed Hans-Georg Gadamer und some of his contemporaries before writing this scholarly biography._ German description:_ Aus Rezensionen zur 1. Auflage: "Die grundliche Gadamer-Biographie…Read more
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    Stirrings (Still) of an Unlikely Metaphysical Reading of Hermeneutics
    Journal of Gadamer Studies 1 (1): 77-98. 2025.
    This essay argues for an unlikely metaphysical reading of hermeneutics that draws on Gadamer’s understanding of Heidegger as a thinker who wanted to overcome the nominalist and nihilistic dead-end of modernity. It argues that Gadamer not only had a far more sympathetic and dialogical understanding of metaphysics than his teacher Heidegger but that he himself also relied heavily on the Platonic metaphysics of the Beautiful and the Medieval metaphysics of the transcendentals to establish his main …Read more
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    Traces of sedimentation in Gadamer
    Continental Philosophy Review 59 (3): 529-542. 2026.
    Gadamer rarely spoke of sedimentation and is not known as a philosopher who had much to say about the issue. This article would like to make the case that he is an important thinker of sedimentation and one who stands, in this regard as in others, in the best tradition of phenomenology. If one understands by sedimentation what is “deposited” in consciousness and determines it, but of which it is not always aware of, nor can become fully conscious of, one does find in Gadamer’s thinking quite a f…Read more
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    Matthew Levering, Scripture and Metaphysics. Aquinas and the renewal of Trinitarian Theology, Oxford, Blackwell,2004, 254 pp. (Guillermo Juárez). Jean-Luc Marion, Au lieu de soi. L’approche de saint Agustin, Paris, PUF, collection «Épiméthée», 2008, 441 pp. (Jean Grondin). Juan Cruz Cruz y María Jesús Soto-Bruna (Editores), Metafísica y dialéctica en los períodos carolingio y franco (s. IX-XI), Pamplona, EUNSA (Colección depensamiento medieval y renacentista nº 79), 2006, 276 pp. ISBN: 84-313-23…Read more
  • Hermeneutische WegeHermeneutische Wege: Hans-Georg Gadamer zum Hundertsten (edited book)
    with D. J. Schmidt, Friederike Rese, and Gunter Figal
    Mohr Siebeck. 2000.
    _English summary:_ The essays in this book represent the impact of Gadamer's thinking at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of a new century. With the intention of demonstrating the effect of Gadamer's thought upon a new generation of philosophers the editors chose authors belonging mainly to a generation which one might fairly describe as the generation of Gadamer's philosophical grandchildren; the aim of this volume is to find responses to Gadamer's thinking which are innovative and…Read more
  • _English summary:_ What would philosophy be without religion? It certainly emerged out of religion since the idea of a cosmos governed by reason was a religious tenet before it became the silent thread of the philosophical quest for truth. It implied the evidence of a purpose of life which philosophy also took up as it tried to offer a form of wisdom. The best philosophers were acutely aware that the wisdom of religion preceded philosophy. This is why their endeavors always relied on a thought-o…Read more
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    Was hält der Rationalist vom Dialog?
    Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 56 (2): 304-308. 2014.
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    Introduction à la métaphysique
    Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal. 2004.
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    Kanadavergessenheit
    In Emmanuel Alloa, Michael G. Festl, Federica Gregoratto & Thomas Telios (eds.), Quertreiber des Denkens: Dieter Thomä - Werk und Wirken, Transcript Verlag. pp. 15-20. 2019.
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    The Confessiones of Gary Brent Madison
    Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 19 (2): 151-158. 2015.
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    The Universality of Hermeneutics and Rhetoric in the Thought of Gadamer
    Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 8 (2): 325-338. 2004.
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    In Memoriam Hans-Georg Gadamer
    with Gary B. Madison and Jeff Mitscherling
    Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy/Revue canadienne de philosophie continentale 6 (1): 5-10. 2002.