Books by Dr Chris Lawn

A guide to the work and ideas of Hans-Georg Gadamer. It covers his major works, ideas and influences and provides a grounding in the central themes of Gadamer's thought. It includes definitions of the key terms used in Gadamer's writings and detailed synopses of his key works, including his magnum opus, "Truth and Method".

Focuses on how Wittgenstein and Gadamer treat language in their accounts of language as game and their major writings on the subject - "Philosophical Investigations" and "Truth and Method", respectively. This book brings the work of two major modern philosophers in to dialogue.

Providing an account of Gadamer's hermeneutics, this book includes an exposition and analysis of such key terms as 'fusion of horizons', 'effective historical consciousness' and 'the logic of question and answer', as well as Gadamer's redefinition of such concepts as 'prejudice', 'authority' and 'tradition'.