Throughout his long career, Gadamer wrote and taught widely on the
philosophy of the Ancient world. In this volume, moving from the
Pre-Socratics to Plato, Gadamer explores the legacy that Ancient thought
left for such philosophical giants as Kant, Schleiermacher and Hegel.
Ancient Sources, Modern Appropriations also includes a substantial
critical introduction in which the Editors reconstruct Gadamer's views
on how the study of the history of philosophy contributes to the task of
doing philosophy by keeping a tradition alive and moving it into the
future. This final volume of the The Selected Writings of Hans-Georg
Gadamer also includes a thorough bibliography of Gadamer's available
writings in English and key secondary studies of his Philosophical
Hermeneutics.
Available in English for the first time, Ancient Sources, Modern
Appropriations is comprised of the most important of Gadamer's
previously untranslated writings on Ancient philosophy.