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1 Bridging the Abyss: Heidegger and Gadamer ROBERT BERNASCONI University of Essex I It is surprising that the question of Gadamer's relation to Heidegger has not provoked more study than it has. It is well enough known that Gadamer was a student of Heidegger's at Marburg in the 1920's and that he has always littered his writings-whether they are on hermeneutics, time or the interpretation of Plato-with references, both explicit and implicit, to his former teacher. Indeed Gadamer has written a number of largely expository essays on Heidegger, fifteen of which have recently been collected in a volume entitled Heideggers Wege.' Not insignifi- cantly, one of these, the introduction to the Reclam edition of "The Origin of the Work of Art", was written at Heidegger's express invitation and was subsequently recommended by him as "containing a decisive hint for the reader of my later writings. The collection as a whole not only shows the relaxed mastery which is characteristic of Gadamer's essay-style, but it is also richly instructive, not least because of Gadamer's fund of personal anecdotes, which he frequently calls upon to illuminate a point. Heideggers Wege shows how Gadamer continued to devote himself to the self-effacing
Research in Phenomenology – Brill
Published: Jan 1, 1986
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