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Theodore George

Theodore D. George
Born1971 (age 52–53)
Alma materVillanova University Whitman College
AwardsJohn Tich Award for Scholarly Excellence, Association of Former Students Teaching Award
Era21st-century philosophy
RegionWestern philosophy
SchoolContinental
InstitutionsTexas A&M University
Main interests
hermeneutics, philosophy of art, post-Kantian philosophy

Theodore D. George (born 1971) is an American philosopher and professor and chair of the department of philosophy at Texas A&M University. He is known for his expertise on post-Kantian philosophy and hermeneutics, in particular, his work on Hans-Georg Gadamer. George is the editor of Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy.[1][2] He was the president of North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics between 2013 and 2016.

Books

  • The Responsibility to Understand: Hermeneutical Contours of Ethical Life (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020)
  • Charles Bambach and Theodore George, eds., Philosophers and their Poets: Reflections on the Poetic Turn in Philosophy Since Kant (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2019)
  • Tragedies of Spirit: Tracing Finitude in Hegel’s Phenomenology (State University of New York Press, 2006; paperback, 2007), ISBN 978-0791468654
  • Günter Figal, Objectivity: The Hermeneutical and Philosophy (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2010), English translation of Günter Figal, Gegenständlichkeit: Das Hermeneutische und die Philosophie (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006). Paperback edition: July 2011.

Articles

  • George, Theodore. “Art as Testimony of Tradition and as Testimony of Ordering.” Internationales Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik 16 (2007): 107–120.
  • George, Theodore. “What is the Future of the Past? Gadamer and Hegel on Truth, Art, and the Ruptures of Tradition.” Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 40 (2009): 4–20.
  • George, Theodore. “From Work to Play: Gadamer on the Affinity of Art, Truth, and Beauty.” Internationales Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik, 10 (2011): 107–122.
  • George, Theodore. "Thing, Object, Life." Research in Phenomenology 42 (2012): 18–43.
  • George, Theodore. "Are We a Conversation? Hermeneutics, Exteriority, and Transmittability." Research in Phenomenology 47 (2017): 331–350.

References

  1. ^ Review of "Tragedies of Spirit", Tom Bunyard, Hegel Bulletin, Volume 30, Issue 1-2 (number 59/60), January 2009, pp. 88-95
  2. ^ Heiden, Gert-Jan van der (6 October 2014). Phenomenological Perspectives on Plurality. BRILL. ISBN 9789004281820.


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