The philosopher Hans-Georg Gadamer died at the age of 102. Here is all you want to know, and more!
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German philosopher who was best remembered for his magnum opus Truth and Method from 1960.
He was born in Prussia, which later became known as Germany.
Quotes
"The more language is a living operation, the less we are aware of it. Thus it follows from the self-forgetfulness of language that its real being consists in what is said in it.
"It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
"The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.
"It was clear to me that the forms of consciousness of our inherited and acquired historical education – aesthetic consciousness and historical consciousness – presented alienated forms of our true historical being.
"Nothing exists except through language.