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| Theodore D. George | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1971 (age 52–53) |
| Alma mater | Villanova University Whitman College |
| Awards | John Tich Award for Scholarly Excellence, Association of Former Students Teaching Award |
| Era | 21st-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Continental |
| Institutions | Texas 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. 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
- Review of "Tragedies of Spirit", Tom Bunyard, Hegel Bulletin, Volume 30, Issue 1-2 (number 59/60), January 2009, pp. 88-95
- Heiden, Gert-Jan van der (6 October 2014). Phenomenological Perspectives on Plurality. BRILL. ISBN 9789004281820.
External links
- Theodore George at Texas A&M
- Works by Theodore George
- "Philosophy Series Lecture: "Lost and Found in Translation" with Theodore George". YouTube. 31 March 2014.
- Theodore George at Google Scholar
- Theodore George at Academia.edu
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