title: Hegel's Dialectic: Five Hermeneutical Studies
author:  Hans-Georg Gadamer 
description: Tracing the development of the notion of the dialectic from the classical Greek thinkers to the modern thinkers, Gadamer demonstrates that Hegel 'worked out his own dialectical method by extending the dialectic of the Ancients.' Excellently translated, this book is a valuable if demanding addition to Gadamer's philosophical work now available in English.
zlib_text: the cambridge companion to
  GADAMER
  Each volume of this series of companions to major philosophers
  contains specially commissioned essays by an international team
  of scholars, together with a substantial bibliography, and will serve
  as a reference work for students and nonspecialists. One aim of the
  series is to dispel the intimidation such readers often feel when faced
  with the work of a difﬁcult and challenging thinker.
  Hans-Georg Gadamer (b. 1900) is widely recognized as the lead-
  ing exponent of philosophical hermeneutics. His work has exerted
  a profound impact on contemporary philosophical and theological
  discourse and has shaped new modes of interpretation in the social
  sciences. The essays in this collection examine Gadamer’s biogra-
  phy, the core of hermeneutical theory, and the signiﬁcance of his
  work for ethics, aesthetics, the social sciences, and theology. There
  is full consideration of Gadamer’s appropriation of Hegel, Heidegger,
  and the Greeks, as well as his relation to m