Hermeneutics and the Humanities: Dialogues with Hans-Georg Gadamer
Madeleine Kasten, Herman Paul & Rico Sneller (eds.)
Scholars from history, law, literature, theology and philosophy test Gadamer's Truth and Method against their own fields. A strong way to see how philosophical hermeneutics works in practice across the humanities.
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