Truth and Method

Joel Weinsheimer and Donald G. Marshall

Truth and Method is one of the two or three most important works of this
century on the philosophy of humanistic studies. The book is powerful,
exciting, but undeniably difficult. Published when Gadamer was sixty, it
gathers the ripe fruit of a lifetime's reading, teaching, and thinking.
Because it is immersed in German philosophy and scholarship, the book is
even more challenging for an American reader. An emerging body of
commentary in English as well as the many shorter essays Gadamer has,
happily, lived to write and which are increasingly available in translation
provide additional means of access to his thought. Truth and Method,
however, remains his magnum opus, the comprehensive and integrated
statement of his rich and penetrating reflecti