Gadamer on Strauss (1981). Supplement to "Correspondence around Truth and Method"

Abstract

We are presenting a translation in Catalan of the interview once given by Hans- Georg Gadamer on Leo Strauss and conducted by Ernest Fortin (1981). The document provides with a supplement to the main sources available to know about the intellectual relationship the two German philosophers had: the «Correspondence concerning Wahr­heit und Methode» (1961), and the essay «Hermeneutik und Historismus», an appendix included in the second edition of the most celebrated of Gadamer’s works (1965). The interview is here introduced by 1) a review of the existing textual evidences as well as the key episodes of the relationship, 2) the interview’s background and the significance of the other scholars who contributed to it, and finally 3) an index of the topics covered by Gadamer in the conversation.