Ebook: Ethics, Aesthetics and the Historical Dimension of Language: The Selected Writings of Hans-Georg Gadamer

Ethics, Aesthetics and the Historical Dimension of Language collects together Gadamer’s most important untranslated writings on ethics, aesthetics and language.
With a substantial introduction by the editors exploring Gadamer’s ethical project and providing an overview of his aesthetic work, this book collects Gadamer’s writings on ancient ethics, including the moral philosophy of Aristotle, and on practical philosophy. In the final section, Gadamer’s writings on art and language are collected, including his examination of poetry, opera and painting among other art forms, and such topics as artistic language and translation.
This important collection is a useful resource for scholars in philosophy, studying hermeneutics, continental, 20th-century and German philosophy.