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• Arthur Schopenhauer

  German post-Kantian philosopher (1788–1860) whose system — laid out in Die Welt als Wille und Vorstellung (1818, expanded 1844) — articulates a metaphysics of the Will (the thing-in-itself underlying all phenomena), an ethics of compassion…

• Friedrich Schleiermacher

  German theologian and philosopher (1768–1834), the founder of modern universal hermeneutics and, in Gadamer's genealogy, the pivotal figure who deformed hermeneutics by detaching understanding from its subject-matter. In the wiki Schleierm…

• Johann Gustav Droysen

  German historian (1808–1884), author of the Historik (lectures on the theory of history) and the historian who named "Hellenism." In Gadamer's Ch 3 he is "the acute methodologist" who advances on Ranke yet, like him, ends in "aesthetic-her…

• Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  German poet, novelist, natural-philosopher (1749–1832); cardinal figure of Weimar Klassik; his works span lyric poetry, drama (Faust I/II), the Bildungsroman (Wilhelm Meister), the philosophical novel (Die Wahlverwandtschaften), and natura…

• Leopold von Ranke

  German historian (1795–1886), the founding figure of the modern historical school and of source-critical historiography ("how it actually was," wie es eigentlich gewesen). In Gadamer's Ch 3 he is the exemplar of the historical worldview wh…

• Novalis

  German poet, philosopher, and mystic (1772–1801), born Georg Philipp Friedrich von Hardenberg. Major figure of early German Romanticism (the Jena circle, alongside Friedrich and August Wilhelm Schlegel, Tieck, Schelling). Author of Hymnen…

• Paul Yorck von Wartenburg

  German philosopher and count (1835–1897), known chiefly through his correspondence with Dilthey and his fragmentary posthumous papers. In Gadamer's Ch 3 he is the surprise hero — "the missing link between Hegel's Phenomenology of Mind and…

• Søren Kierkegaard

  Danish philosopher and theologian (1813–1855), the père fondateur of modern existentialism, who articulated the "irreducibility of the source and spring of liberty" against the impersonal architectonic of Hegel's System. Author of Either/O…

• Wilhelm Dilthey

  German philosopher (1833–1911), Schleiermacher's biographer, and the great theorist of the "critique of historical reason" who sought to ground the human sciences (Geisteswissenschaften) in life. In Gadamer's genealogy he is the central pr…