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After completing his philosophical studies at the University of Montreal, he wrote a thesis on the concept of truth in hermeneutics in 1982 at the University of Tübingen, where he also studied classical philology and theology.
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Philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002) was at the centre of some of the century's darkest, most complex historical events, for he chose to remain in his native Germany in the 1930s, neither supporting Hitler nor actively opposing him, but negotiating instead an "unpolitical" position that allowed him to continue his philosophical work. In this work Jean Grondin offers an appraisal of Gadamer's life and achievement. Drawing on interviews with Gadamer and his contemporaries, Gadamer's personal correspondence and archival research, Grondin traces Gadamer's life as an academician and the development of his ideas, placing them in the context of his times. He sheds light on the genesis and accomplishment of Gadamer's major opus, "Truth and Method", the bible of modern-day hermeneutics. He also addresses the question of Gadamer's attitude and actions amid the catastrophe of Nazi Germany, seeking to paint a balanced portrait of a scholar who tried to preserve German culture and tradition in the face of an invasive menace.
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Jean Grondin
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He is a specialist in the thought of Immanuel Kant, Hans-Georg Gadamer, and Martin Heidegger. He taught at Université Laval, in Quebec City from 1982 to 1990 and at the University of Ottawa in the academic year 1990-1991. Grondin has taught at the University of Montreal since 1991.
In addition to his authored volumes, translated into more than twelve languages, he is also the author of many articles in various philosophical journals.
He can be seen as the principal advocate for the work of Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur and is prominent in contemporary hermeneutics. In 2014 Jean Grondin was awarded the Molson Prize.
The influence of Gadamer and his magnum opus Truth and Method (Warheit und Methode. 1960) is apparent in much of Grondin"s work.
Grondin has also written the first intellectual biography of Gadamer, Hans-Georg Gadamer: A Biography.
Grondin"s most well-known work is The Universality of Hermeneutics (1993), which as been translated into twelve languages. This concept is further developed in his essay, "On the Meaning of Life" (2003), wherein Grondin argues for an immanent meaning of life based on this internalized discourse. Grondin has, in addition to this original work, produced translations of many of Gadamer"s writings.
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Hans-Georg Gadamer: A Biography (Yale Studies in Hermeneutics)
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Hans-Georg Gadamer: A Biography (Yale Studies in Hermeneutics) by Jean Grondin (2003-04-10)
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- Hans-Georg Gadamer; a biography. Translated by Joel Weisheimer.
- (Hans-Georg Gadamer: A Biography ) Author: Jean Grondin Jun-2003
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Hans-Georg Gadamer: A Biography (Yale Studies in Hermeneutics)
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This book was eagerly awaited in Germany, in part due to the confirmed Nazism of Gadamer"s teacher and friend, Martin Heidegger, and the question of Gadamer"s own sympathies during World World War World War II
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His research focuses on hermeneutics, phenomenology, German classical philosophy and the history of metaphysics. His two volumes on Kant continue to be authoritative and his major contributions on the universality of hermeneutics and phenomenology place Grondin in a Platonic philosophical tradition that goes back to Augustine and passes through Kant, Edmund Husserl, Heidegger, and Gadamer. Grondin here defends the concept of a hermeneutics founded on the universality of interior language: behind discourse itself, understanding is held to be an interior sense that exceeds the limited terms of exterior language.
Grondin has also worked extensively on German idealism, the hermeneutics of Wilhelm Dilthey and Ricoeur, the theory of interpretation put forward by Emilio Betti, the deconstruction of Jacques Derrida, and the new phenomenology of Jean-Luc Marion.
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Royal Society of Canada.
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Officer of the Order of Canada Order of Canada; the Molson Prize
The Order of Canada is a Canadian national order, admission into which is the second highest honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada.The Order of Canada is a Canadian national order, admission into which is the second highest honour for merit in the system of orders, decorations, and medals of Canada.