Gadamer Resources

Links to Video/Audio/Podcast Lectures

  1. “Why Does Hermeneutics Matter?” Philosophy Today Podcast hosted by Todd Mei. This is episode features three hermeneutical scholars Andreea Deciu Ritivoi (Carnegie Mellon University, USA), David Utsler (North Central Texas College, USA), and Nicholas Davey (University of Dundee, UK) who offer their reflections on the importance of hermeneutics and why it matters to our everyday lives. A wonderful entry point for those new hermeneutics and also of great benefit to those already working  in the field. 
  2. Introductory Youtube Lecture on Gadamer by Dr. Jessica Frazier
  3. David Vessey’s YouTube Channel (online reading group discussing Gadamer’s texts): Gadamer Reading Group   
  4.  Lectures by Dr. David Vessey on “Epistemic Injustice,”  “Social Epistemology,” and “Hermeneutical Injustice” at Calgary University : Day 1, Lecture 1;  Day 2, Lecture 2; Day 3, Lecture 3; Day 2, Lecture 1; Day 2, Lecture 2; Day 2, Lecture 3; Day 3, Lecture 1; Day 3, Lecture 2; Day 3, Lecture 3

Online Links to Secondary Sources

  1. “Gadamer’s Aesthetics” by Nicholas Davey and Cynthia R. Nielsen, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  2. “Hans-Georg Gadamer” by Jeff Malpas, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  3. “Hermeneutics” by Theodore George, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

Secondary Sources for Teaching/Scholarship

  1. Helpful Secondary Sources for Part 1 of Truth and Method
  2. Unquiet Understanding: Gadamer’s Philosophical Hermeneutics by Nicholas Davey (SUNY Press, 2006) 
  3. Unfinished Worlds: Hermeneutics, Aesthetics and Gadamer by Nicholas Davey (Edinburgh University Press, 2013)
  4. Negative Hermeneutics and the Question of Practice by Nicholas Davey (Bloomsbury, 2024)
  5. The Gadamerian Mind, edited by Theodore George and Gert-Jan van der Heiden (Routledge 2021). 
  6. Introduction to Philosophical Hermeneutics by Jean Grondin (Yale University Press, 1994.
  7. The Inner Word in Gadamer’s Hermeneutics by John Arthos (Notre Dame Press, 2009). 
  8. Gadamer’s Poetics: A Critique of Modern Aesthetics by John Arthos
  9. Hermeneutics and the Voice of the Other (Suny Press, 1997)
  10. Routledge Guide to Hermeneutics, eds. Jeff Malpas and Hans-Helmuth Gander (Routledge, 2025)
  11. Gadamer’s Truth and Method: A Polyphonic Commentary, edited by Greg Lynch and Cynthia R. Nielsen (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2022). 
  12. Gadamer’s Hermeneutical Aesthetics: Art as a Performative, Dynamic, Communal Event by Cynthia R. Nielsen (Routledge, 2023)
  13. Hermeneutics and Truth, edited by Brice R. Wachterhauser (Northwestern University Press, 1994).
  14. A Hermeneutics of Poetic Education: The Play of the In-Between by Catherine Homan (Lexington, 2020). 
  15. Hermeneutics Commons (A multi-dimensional project,  involving both informational and bibliographic resources on its website and support for active involvement in the field. It seeks to encourage active discussion across disciplinary areas and across languages. It promotes open access to its materials to facilitate participation. In addition to its support for hermeneutics as a scholarly field, it promotes hermeneutics as an outward-facing discipline, actively seeking engagement with current and perennial issues facing humanity.)

Journals

  1. Journal of Gadamer Studies (Open Journal System; free access to all articles)
  2. Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy
  3. Journal of Applied Hermeneutics (Open Journal System; free access to all articles)
  4. Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology
  5. Philosophy Today
  6. Research in Phenomenology

Academic Societies

  1. North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics
  2. The International Institute for Hermeneutics
  3. SPEP
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