Theodore George
Theodore Dennis George 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- Charles Bambach and Theodore George, eds., Philosophers and their Poets: Reflections on the Poetic Turn in Philosophy Since Kant Tragedies of Spirit: Tracing Finitude in Hegel’s Phenomenology,
- Günter Figal, Objectivity: The Hermeneutical and Philosophy, English translation of Günter Figal, Gegenständlichkeit: Das Hermeneutische und die Philosophie. Paperback edition: July 2011.
Articles
- George, Theodore. “Art as Testimony of Tradition and as Testimony of Ordering.” Internationales Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik 16 : 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 : 4–20.
- George, Theodore. “From Work to Play: Gadamer on the Affinity of Art, Truth, and Beauty.” Internationales Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik, 10 : 107–122.
- George, Theodore. "Thing, Object, Life." Research in Phenomenology 42 : 18–43.
- George, Theodore. "Are We a Conversation? Hermeneutics, Exteriority, and Transmittability." Research in Phenomenology 47 : 331–350.