20th century · 1900–2002
Who influenced Hans-Georg Gadamer?
Influences
Understanding as fusion of horizons — hermeneutics as the way all interpretation works.
Hans-Georg Gadamer was influenced by Wilhelm Dilthey and Martin Heidegger. That is 2 lines of the 448 documented lines of influence between the 279 thinkers on this map.
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Who was Hans-Georg Gadamer?
Hans-Georg Gadamer, a German philosopher of the continental tradition, is best known for his work on hermeneutics, the theory of interpretation.
His main book, Truth and Method (1960), argues that understanding is shaped by history, language and dialogue, and cannot be reduced to applying an objective method.
Summarized from the lead of the Wikipedia article.
Who influenced Hans-Georg Gadamer?
2 direct influences on this map, earliest first.
- Wilhelm Dilthey 1833–1911
- Martin Heidegger 1889–1976
The line of teachers behind Hans-Georg Gadamer
The longest documented line of influence ending at Hans-Georg Gadamer runs 26 generations back, to Thales of Miletus.
- Thales of Miletus
- Anaximenes of Miletus
- Anaxagoras
- Socrates
- Antisthenes
- Diogenes of Sinope
- Crates of Thebes
- Zeno of Citium
- Seneca
- Tertullian
- Augustine of Hippo
- Anselm of Canterbury
- Peter Lombard
- Thomas Aquinas
- René Descartes
- Thomas Hobbes
- Baruch Spinoza
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
- Christian Wolff
- Immanuel Kant
- Johann Gottlieb Fichte
- F. W. J. Schelling
- Georg W. F. Hegel
- Max Stirner
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Martin Heidegger
- Hans-Georg Gadamer
Two steps away from Hans-Georg Gadamer
Indirect influences
Contemporaries of Hans-Georg Gadamer
Thinkers on this map born within 25 years of Hans-Georg Gadamer, with no direct line between them.
- Erich Fromm 1900–1980
- Gilbert Ryle 1900–1976
- Jacques Lacan 1901–1981
- Louis Hjelmslev 1899–1965
- Alfred Schutz 1899–1959
- Karl Popper 1902–1994
- Herbert Marcuse 1898–1979
- Émile Benveniste 1902–1976
Hans-Georg Gadamer by the numbers
- Direct influences
- 2
- Direct followers
- 0
- Thinkers upstream
- 110
- Thinkers downstream
- 0
- Wikipedia languages
- 65 — #32 of 84 among 20th-century philosophers
- Card rarity
- Epic
Questions about Hans-Georg Gadamer
- Who influenced Hans-Georg Gadamer?
- Wilhelm Dilthey and Martin Heidegger.
- Who did Hans-Georg Gadamer influence?
- No later thinker on this map is recorded as drawing directly on Hans-Georg Gadamer.
- When did Hans-Georg Gadamer live?
- 1900–2002. The map files Hans-Georg Gadamer under the 20th century.
- How rare is the Hans-Georg Gadamer card?
- Wikipedia carries an article on Hans-Georg Gadamer in 65 languages, which makes it an Epic card. Legendary starts at 100 languages, Epic at 50 and Rare at 25.
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