Kristin Gjesdal works in philosophy of interpretation (hermeneutics), phenomenology, nineteenth-century philosophy (incl. German Idealism), and aesthetics. Her Gadamer and the Legacy of German Idealism (CUP 2009) represents a critical discussion of twentieth-century hermeneutics. This perspective is given a positive twist in Herder’s Hermeneutics (CUP 2017), which retrieves a pre-Kantian line of hermeneutic thought. She also takes an interest in women philosophers in the long Nineteenth Century (from romanticism to phenomenology). Her work in aesthetics centers on historical and systematic issues in philosophy of art, with a particular focus …

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