Hans-Georg Gadamer en die Ou Testament

Hermeneutics and historical consciousness: An appraisal of the contribution of Hans-Georg Gadamer

Ab stract In this in tro duc tory ar ti cle to the vol ume of the South Af ri can Jour nal of Phi loso phy in trib ute of HansGeorg Gada mer, the author, first, makes a few re marks about the na ture of her me neu tics and Gadamer's views on the uni ver sal ity of the her me neu ti cal ex pe ri ence. This uni ver sal ity is, in par ticu lar, ex plained from the per spec tive of the “lin guis ti...

[Hermeneutics and health: reflections on the thinking of Hans-Georg Gadamer].

This article has as its objective the desire to contribute to nursing practice with the use of Gadamer's hermeneutics. It reflects on the incorporation of the conceptual paradigm of health, care and therapeutic dialogue. In the first section the article discusses the Gadamerian concepts of the work Truth and Method, the hermeneutics philosophy proposed by the philosopher, and it concludes with ...

Statut syntaxique des appositions en allemand du type Y, X ou Y - X ou Y(X)

Hans Georg Trüper (1936–2016) and His Contributions to Halophile Research

Prof. Hans Georg Trüper, one of the most important scientists in the field of halophile research, passed away on 9 March 2016 at the age of 79. I here present a brief obituary with special emphasis on Prof. Trüper's contributions to our understanding of the halophilic prokaryotes and their adaptations to life in hypersaline environments. He has pioneered the study of the halophilic anoxygenic p...

Laparoscopy - The Early Attempts: Spotlighting Georg Kelling and Hans Christian Jacobaeus

The traditional gap between surgeons and internists was much wider 100 years ago than nowadays. At the beginning of the twentieth century, neither group was particularly open to the idea of scholarly exchange. In this respect, both early pioneers of laparoscopy, Georg Kelling (1866-1945) (Figure 1), a German surgeon of Dresden, and Hans Christian Jacobaeus (1879-1937) (Figure 2), an internist f...