Editing Hans-Georg Gadamer (section)

===At Heidelberg===
After the war Gadamer left for West Germany, accepting first a position in [[Goethe University Frankfurt]] and then the succession of [[Karl Jaspers]] as the philosophy chair in the [[University of Heidelberg]] in 1949, retiring in 1968.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lavietes |first=Stuart |date=2002-03-25 |title=Hans-Georg Gadamer, 102, Who Questioned Fixed Truths |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2002/03/25/world/hans-georg-gadamer-102-who-questioned-fixed-truths.html |access-date=2025-01-11 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> He remained in this position, as emeritus, until his death in 2002 at the age of 102.<ref name="washingtonpost_obit">{{cite news |date=16 March 2002 |title=Hans-Georg Gadamer Dies; Noted German Philosopher |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/local/2002/03/16/hans-georg-gadamer-dies/2e97acf4-16f2-4a24-9ca0-c2d730918700/ |access-date=25 March 2011 |newspaper=Washington Post}}</ref><ref name="guardian_obit">{{cite news | url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2002/mar/18/guardianobituaries.obituaries | title=Hans-Georg Gadamer | access-date=25 March 2011 | author=Roberts, Julian | date=18 March 2002 | work=The Guardian}}</ref><ref name="independent_obit">{{cite news | url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/hansgeorg-gadamer-729860.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111012053133/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/hansgeorg-gadamer-729860.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=12 October 2011 | title=Hans-Georg Gadamer | access-date=25 March 2011 | date=26 March 2002 | work=The Independent}}</ref> He was also an Editorial Advisor of the journal ''[[Dionysius (journal)|Dionysius]]''.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://classics.dal.ca/Journals/Dionysius/Editorial_Board.php|title=Department of Classics|website=Dalhousie University}}</ref> It was during this time that he completed his ''[[magnum opus]]'', ''Truth and Method'' (1960), and engaged in his famous debate with [[Jürgen Habermas]] over the possibility of transcending history and culture in order to find a truly objective position from which to critique society. The debate was inconclusive, but marked the beginning of warm relations between the two men. It was Gadamer who secured Habermas's first professorship in the University of Heidelberg.

In 1968, Gadamer invited [[Tomonobu Imamichi]] for lectures at Heidelberg, but their relationship became very cool after Imamichi alleged that Heidegger had taken his concept of ''[[Dasein]]'' out of [[Okakura Kakuzo]]'s concept of ''das in-der-Welt-sein'' (to be in the [[being in the world]]) expressed in ''[[The Book of Tea]]'', which Imamichi's teacher had offered to Heidegger in 1919, after having followed lessons with him the year before.<ref name="Imamichi">{{cite web |first1=Tomonobu |last1=Imamichi |title=In Search of Wisdom. One Philosopher's Journey |location=Tokyo, International House of Japan |year=2004 |first2=Anne |last2=Fagot-Largeault |url=http://www.college-de-france.fr/media/bio_med/UPL8933_AFL_res_0607.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101228124437/http://www.college-de-france.fr/media/bio_med/UPL8933_AFL_res_0607.pdf |archive-date=28 December 2010 |work=Le Devenir Impensable |publisher=[[Collège de France]] |access-date=7 December 2006 }}</ref> Imamichi and Gadamer renewed contact four years later during an international congress.<ref name="Imamichi" />

In 1981, Gadamer attempted to engage with [[Jacques Derrida]] at a conference in Paris but it proved less enlightening because the two thinkers had little in common. A last meeting between Gadamer and Derrida was held at the Stift of Heidelberg in July 2001, coordinated by Derrida's students Joseph Cohen and Raphael Zagury-Orly.{{citation needed|date=August 2013}} This meeting marked, in many ways, a turn in their philosophical encounter. After Gadamer's death, Derrida called their failure to find common ground one of the worst debacles of his life and expressed, in the main obituary for Gadamer, his great personal and philosophical respect. [[Richard J. Bernstein]] said that "[a] genuine dialogue between Gadamer and Derrida has never taken place. This is a shame because there are crucial and consequential issues that arise between hermeneutics and deconstruction".<ref>{{Cite book|author=Richard J. Bernstein|chapter=Hermeneutics, Critical Theory and Deconstruction|title=The Cambridge Companion to Gadamer|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=2002|isbn=0521801931}}</ref>