Theodore George Explained

Region:	Western philosophy
Era:	21st-century philosophy
Theodore D. George
School Tradition:	Continental
Institutions:	Texas A&M University
Main Interests:	hermeneutics, philosophy of art, post-Kantian philosophy
Alma Mater:	Villanova UniversityWhitman College
Awards:	John Tich Award for Scholarly Excellence, Association of Former Students Teaching Award

Theodore D. 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 .^{[1] [2]} 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),
• Günter Figal, Objectivity: The Hermeneutical and Philosophy (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2010), English translation of Günter Figal, Gegenständlichkeit: Das Hermeneutische und die Philosophie (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006). Paperback edition: July 2011.

Articles

• George, Theodore. “Art as Testimony of Tradition and as Testimony of Ordering.” Internationales Jahrbuch für 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 für 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.

External links

• Theodore George at Texas A&M
• Works by Theodore George
• Web site: Philosophy Series Lecture: "Lost and Found in Translation" with Theodore George. YouTube. 31 March 2014.
• Theodore George at Google Scholar
• Theodore George at Academia.edu

Notes and References

1. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/hegel-bulletin/article/georgetheodor-tragedies-of-spirit-tracing-finitude-in-hegels-phenomenology-albany-state-university-of-new-york-press-2006-isbn13-9780791468654-hbk-pp-xi-181-mageeglenn-alexander-hegel-and-the-hermetic-tradition-ithaca-cornell-university-press-2001-isbn-0801438721-hbk-ppxiii-285/2CE189E84DCD55605B9BA88A42E00A60 Review of "Tragedies of Spirit"
2. Book: Heiden. Gert-Jan van der. Phenomenological Perspectives on Plurality. BRILL. en. 6 October 2014. 9789004281820.