Hans-Georg Gadamer was born in Marburg, Germany, on February 11, 1900, the son of a prominent pharmaceutical chemistry professor. When he died in 2002, he had lived the entirety of the twentieth century. Gadamer spent his early years in Breslau and in 1918 enrolled at the University of Breslau where he studied literature and philosophy. When his father returned to Marburg in 1919 to assume a new chair at the University, Gadamer continued his studies there, counting among his teachers Paul Natorp and Nicolai Hartmann. He wrote his dissertation “The Nature of Pleasure in the Platonic Dialogues” under Natorp’s supervision. While both Natorp and Hartmann were firmly rooted in the neo-Kantianism that was dominant in Marburg during this time, both were receptive to the growing prominence of phenomenology, which quickly caught Gadamer’s attention. In 1922, Natorp, who had been in correspondence with Husserl about promoting Heidegger for a position in Marburg, gave Gadamer a copy of the...
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Risser, J. (2023). Gadamer, Hans-Georg (1900-2002). In: de Warren, N., Toadvine, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Phenomenology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-47253-5_27-1
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