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Theodore George

b. 1971

American philosopher

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Born 1971. Theodore George is an American translator, teacher and philosopher.

Theodore Dennis George (born 1971) 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 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020) Charles Bambach and Theodore George, eds., Philosophers and their Poets: Reflections on the Poetic Turn in Philosophy Since Kant (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2019) Tragedies of Spirit: Tracing Finitude in Hegel’s Phenomenology (State University of New York Press, 2006; paperback, 2007), GĂŒnter Figal, Objectivity: The Hermeneutical and Philosophy (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2010), English translation of GĂŒnter Figal, GegenstĂ€ndlichkeit: Das Hermeneutische und die Philosophie (TĂŒbingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006). Paperback edition: July 2011.

Articles

George, Theodore. “Art as Testimony of Tradition and as Testimony of Ordering.” Internationales Jahrbuch fĂŒr Hermeneutik 16 (2007): 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 (2009): 4–20. George, Theodore. “From Work to Play: Gadamer on the Affinity of Art, Truth, and Beauty.” Internationales Jahrbuch fĂŒr Hermeneutik, 10 (2011): 107–122. George, Theodore. "Thing, Object, Life." Research in Phenomenology 42 (2012): 18–43. George, Theodore. "Are We a Conversation? Hermeneutics, Exteriority, and Transmittability." Research in Phenomenology 47 (2017): 331–350.

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Villanova University, Whitman College
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Texas A&M University

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Who is Theodore George?

American philosopher

When was Theodore George born?

Theodore George was born on 19 April 1971.

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Theodore George is a translator, teacher and philosopher.

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Theodore George is American.

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