Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002) and the Impact of Hermeneutics

At a time when narrow scientific and philosophical specialization dominates our academic landscape a thinking that unfolds in broad ways is often viewed with some suspicion. This however is not the case of Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics which is still present today in the most diverse fields of philosophy and the humanities. In addition to central themes of Gadamer's hermeneutics and their use in the interpretation of philosophical writings the following first number of Labyrinth 2022 discusses the little-known debate between Gadamer and Blumenberg the last dispute between Gadamer and Derrida which has hardly been considered and the dialogic models of interpretation in Gadamer and Davidson.