Gadamer's Path to Plato

Gadamer''s Path to Plato investigates the formative years of Hans-Georg Gadamer''s Plato studies, while studying with Martin Heidegger at Marburg University. It outlines the evolution of Heidegger''s understanding of Plato, explains why his hermeneutics and phenomenological method inspired Gadamer, and why Heidegger''s argument, that Plato was responsible for Western civilization''s forgetting the...