An extensive bibliography of Gadamer’s work, compiled by Richard E. Palmer, can be found in Hahn 1997, 555–602; see also Makita 1995.

Primary Sources

Works in German

• 1985–1995, Gesammelte Werke, 10 vols., Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr; Truth and Method (Wahrheit und Methode: Grundzüge einer philosophischen Hermeneutik, 5th edn, 1975), is included as v.1; a list of contents for all 10 vols. is included in vol.10.
• 1967–1979, Kleine Schriften, 4 vols, Tübingen: Mohr.

Other works not included in the Gesammelte Werke or Kleine Schriften:

• 1971, Hegels Dialektik, Tübingen: Mohr, English trans. Gadamer 1976b.
• 1976a, Vernunft im Zeitalter der Wissenschaft: Aufsätze, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, English trans. Gadamer 1981.
• 1989a, Das Erbe Europas: Beiträge, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp, English translation in Gadamer 1992
• 1993a, Hermeneutik, Ästhetik, Praktische Philosophie: Hans-Georg Gadamer im Gespräch, ed. by Carsten Dutt, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag C. Winter, English trans. Gadamer 2001.
• 1993b, Über die Verborgenheit der Gesundheit: Aufsätze und Vorträge, Frankfurt: Suhrkamp Verlag, English translation Gadamer 1996.
• 1997a, Der Anfang der Philosophie, Stuttgart: Reclam, English trans. Gadamer 1998a
• 2000, Hermeneutische Entwürfe, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.

Works in English

• 1976b, Hegel’s Dialectic: Five Hermeneutical Studies, trans. by P. Christopher Smith (from Gadamer 1971), New Haven: Yale University Press. (Scholar)
• 1976c, Philosophical Hermeneutics, ed. and trans. by David E. Linge, Berkeley: University of California Press; 2nd revised edition published as “30th Anniversary Edition”, 2008. (Scholar)
• 1980, Dialogue and Dialectic: Eight Hermeneutical Studies on Plato, trans. and ed. by P. Christopher Smith, New Haven: Yale University Press.
• 1981, Reason in the Age of Science, trans. by Frederick G. Lawrence, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
• 1985, Philosophical Apprenticeships, trans. by Robert R. Sullivan, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
• 1986a, The Idea of the Good in Platonic-Aristotelian Philosophy, trans. P. Christopher Smith, New Haven: Yale University Press.
• 1986b, The Relevance of the Beautiful and Other Essays, trans. by N. Walker, ed. by R. Bernasconi, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• 1989b, Truth and Method, 2nd rev. edn. (1st English edn, 1975, trans. by W, Glen-Doepel, ed. by John Cumming and Garret Barden), revised translation by J. Weinsheimer and D.G. Marshall, New York: Crossroad. [Since the appearance of the 2nd revised edition in 1989, Truth and Method has been republished in various formats by Continuum, and more recently Bloomsbury, without substantive change to the text, but unfortunately without maintaining any uniformity of pagination.]
• 1991, Plato’s dialectical ethics: phenomenological interpretations relating to the “Philebus”, trans. by R. M. Wallace, New Haven: Yale University Press.
• 1992, Hans-Georg Gadamer on Education, Poetry and History: Applied Hermeneutics, ed. by Dieter Misgeld and Graeme Nicholson, trans. by Lawrence Schmidt and Monica Ruess, Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
• 1994a, Heidegger’s ways, trans. by John W. Staley, Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
• 1994b, Literature and Philosophy in Dialogue: Essays in German Literary Theory, trans. By Robert H. Paslick, ed. by Dennis J. Schmidt, Albany, NY: SUNY Press.
• 1996, The Enigma of Health: The Art of Healing in a Scientific Age, trans. by John Gaiger and Nicholas Walker, Oxford: Polity Press.
• 1997b, ‘Reflections on my Philosophical Journey’, trans. by Richard E. Palmer, in Hahn (ed.) 1997.
• 1997c, Gadamer on Celan: ‘Who Am I and Who Are You?’ and Other Essays, trans. and ed. by Richard Heinemann and Bruce Krajewski, Albany, NY: SUNY Press. (Scholar)
• 1998a, The Beginning of Philosophy, trans. by Rod Coltman, New York: Continuum.
• 1998b, Praise of Theory, trans. by Chris Dawson, New Haven: Yale University Press.
• 1999, Hermeneutics, Religion and Ethics, trans. by Joel Weinsheimer, New Haven: Yale University Press.
• 2001, Gadamer in Conversation, trans. by Richard Palmer (from Gadamer 1993a), New Haven: Yale University Press. (Scholar)
• 2002, The Beginning of Knowledge, trans. by Rod Coltman, New York: Continuum.
• 2003, A Century of Philosophy: a conversation with Ricardo Dottori, trans. by Rod Coltman and Sigrid Koepke, New York: Continuum.
• 2007, The Gadamer Reader: A Bouquet of the Later Writings , ed. by Jean Grondin, trans. by Richard Palmer, Chicago: Northwestern University Press.
• 2016, Hermeneutics between History and Philosophy: The Selected Writings of Hans-Georg Gadamer, ed. Pol Vandevelde and Arun Iyer, London: Bloomsbury.
• 2016, with Jacques Derrida and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Heidegger, Philosophy, and Politics. The Heidelberg Conference, trans. Mireille Calle-Gruber, ed. Jeff Fort, Fordham: Fordham University Press.
• 2021, ‘Music and Time’, trans. Cynthia R. Nielsen & David Liakos, Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy, 26: 251–258. (Scholar)
• 2022, Ethics, Aesthetics, and the Historical Dimension of Language: The Selected Writings of Hans-Georg Gadamer, ed. Pol Vandevelde and Arun Iyer, London: Bloomsbury.

Secondary Sources (in English)

• Aho, Kevin, 2022,‘Gadamer and Health’, George and van der Heiden (2022), pp. 177–187. (Scholar)
• Arthos, John, 2013, Gadamer’s Poetics: A Critique of Modern Aesthetics, London: Bloomsbury. (Scholar)
• Barthold, Lauren Swayne, 2010, Gadamer’s Dialectical Hermeneutics, Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2010. (Scholar)
• Benson, Bruce Ellis, 2003, The Improvisation of Musical Dialogue: A Phenomenology of Music, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (Scholar)
• Betti, Emilio, 2021 [1962], Hermeneutics as a General Methodology of the Sciences of Spirit, Abingdon: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Brandom, Robert, 2002, Tales of the Mighty Dead: Historical Essays in the Metaphysics of Intentionality, Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Botts, Tina Fernandes, 2022, ‘Gadamer and Race Theory’, in George and van der Heiden (2022), pp. 501–514. (Scholar)
• Carr, Thomas K., 1996, Newman and Gadamer: Toward a Hermeneutics of Religious Knowledge, New York: Oxford University Press. (Scholar)
• Code, Lorraine (ed.), 2003, The Feminist Interpretations of Hans-Georg Gadamer, University Park, Pennsylvania State University Press. (Scholar)
• Coltman, Rodney R., 1998, The Language of Hermeneutics: Gadamer and Heidegger in Dialogue, Albany, NY: SUNY Press. (Scholar)
• Dallmayr, Fred, 1993, ‘Self and Other: Gadamer and the Hermeneutics of Difference’, Yale Journal of Law and Humanities 5: 507–529. (Scholar)
• Davey, Nicholas, 2013, Unfinished Worlds: Hermeneutics, Aesthetics and Gadamer, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. (Scholar)
• Di Cesare, Donatella, 2013, Gadamer: A Philosophical Portrait, trans. Niall Keane, Bloomington: Indiana University Press. (Scholar)
• Dostal, Robert J. (ed.), 2021a, The Cambridge Companion to Gadamer, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2nd edn. (Scholar)
• Dostal, Robert J., 2021b, ‘Gadamer (1900–2002): The Man and His Work’, in Dostal (2021a), pp. 15–43. (Scholar)
• Dottori, Ricardo (ed.), 2012, Fifty years after H.-G. Gadamer’s ‘Truth and Method’: Some considerations on H.-G. Gadamer’s main philosophical work, Berlin: LIT Verlag. (Scholar)
• Dworkin, Ronald, 1986, Law’s Empire, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• Eberhard, Philippe, 2004, The Middle Voice in Gadamer’s Hermeneutics: A Basic Interpretation with Some Theological Implications, Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck. (Scholar)
• Fairfield, Paul (ed.), 2012 Education, Dialogue and Hermeneutics, London: Bloomsbury. (Scholar)
• Foster, Matthew, 1991, Gadamer and Practical Philosophy: The Hermeneutics of Moral Confidence, Atlanta: Scholars Press. (Scholar)
• Gander, Hans-Helmuth, 2014, ‘Gadamer: the Universality of Hermeneutics’, in Malpas and Gander (2014), pp. 37–48. (Scholar)
• Garfield, Jay, 2002, ‘Philosophy, Religion, and the Hermeneutic Imperative’, in Malpas, Arnswald and Kertscher (2002), pp. 97–110. (Scholar)
• George, Theodore, 2020, The Responsibility to Understand: Hermeneutical Contours of Ethical Life, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. (Scholar)
• George, Theodore and Gert-Jan van der Heiden (eds), 2022, The Gadamerian Mind, Abingdon: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Grondin, Jean, 2002, The Philosophy of Gadamer, trans. by Kathryn Plant, New York: McGill-Queens University Press. (Scholar)
• Grondin, Jean, 2003, Hans-Georg Gadamer: A Biography, trans. Joel Weinsheimer, New Haven: Yale University Press. (Scholar)
• Grün, Mauro, 2005, ‘Gadamer and the Otherness of Nature: Elements for an Environmental Education’, Human Studies, 28: 157–171. (Scholar)
• Hahn, Lewis Edwin (ed.), 1997, The Philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer, Library of Living Philosophers XXIV, Chicago: Open Court (includes Gadamer 1997b). (Scholar)
• Hirsch, E.D., 1967, Validity in Interpretation, New Haven and London: Yale University Press. (Scholar)
• Homan, Catherine, 2022, ‘Gadamer and feminism’, in George and van der Heiden (2022), pp. 487–500. (Scholar)
• Keane, Niall and Chris Lawn (eds), 2015, A Companion to Hermeneutics, Oxford: Blackwell. (Scholar)
• Keane, Niall, 2021,‘Hermeneutics in a Broader Horizon: Gadamer, Rorty, Davidson’, in Dostal (2021), pp. 374–405. (Scholar)
• Krajewski, Bruce (ed.), 2003, Gadamer’s Repercussions: Reconsidering Philosophical Hermeneutics, Berkeley: University of California Press. (Scholar)
• Lammi, Walter, 2008, Gadamer and the Question of the Divine, London: Continuum. (Scholar)
• Lawn, Chris, 2006, Gadamer: A Guide for the Perplexed, New York: Continuum. (Scholar)
• Lawrence, F. (ed.), 1984, The Beginning and the Beyond: Papers From the Gadamer and Voegelin Conferences, Supplementary Issue of Lonergan Workshop, Vol. 4 (Chico, CA: Scholars Press). (Scholar)
• Lawrence, Fred, 2006, ‘Gadamer, the Hermeneutic Revolution, and Theology’, in Dostal (2021), pp. 242–281 (Scholar)
• Makita, Etsura, 1995, Gadamer-Bibliographie (1922–1994), New York: Peter Lang (in German) (this bibliography, in updated form, also appears at the ‘Gadamer Home Page’, see Other Internet Resources below.) (Scholar)
• Malpas, Jeff, 2014, ‘Place and Situation’, in Malpas (2014), pp. 354–366. (Scholar)
• Malpas, Jeff, Ulrich Arnswald and Jens Kertscher (eds.), 2002, Gadamer’s Century: Essays in Honour of Hans-Georg Gadamer, Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. (Scholar)
• Malpas, Jeff, and Hans-Helmuth Gander (eds.), 2014, The Routledge Companion to Hermeneutics, London: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Malpas, Jeff, and Santiago Zabala (eds.), 2010, Consequences of Hermeneutics: Fifty Years After “Truth and Method”, Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press. (Scholar)
• McAuliffe, Sam, 2023, Improvisation in Music and Philosophical Hermeneutics, London: Bloomsbury. (Scholar)
• McDowell, John, 1996, Mind and World, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. (Scholar)
• –––, 2002, ‘Gadamer and Davidson on Understanding and Relativism’, in Malpas, Arnswald and Kertscher (2002), pp. 173–194. (Scholar)
• McIntyre, Alasdair, 2002, ‘On Not Having the Last Word: Thoughts on Our Debts to Gadamer’, in Malpas, Arnswald and Kertscher (2002), pp. 157–172. (Scholar)
• Michelfelder, Diane. P. and Richard E. Palmer (eds.), 1989, Dialogue and Deconstruction: The Gadamer-Derrida Debate, Albany, NY: SUNY Press. (Contains a number of Gadamer’s writings relevant to the debate with Derrida.) (Scholar)
• Mootz, Francis Joseph, 2007, Gadamer and Law, Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate Publishing. (Scholar)
• Nielsen, Cynthia R, 2023, Gadamer’s Hermeneutical Aesthetics: Art as a Performative, Dynamic, Communal Event, Abingdon: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Ormiston, Gayle and Alan Schrift (eds.), 1990, The Hermeneutic Tradition, Albany: SUNY Press (contains a number of writings by Gadamer and others relevant to the debate with Habermas as well as Betti.) (Scholar)
• Palmer, Richard, E., 1969, Hermeneutics: Interpretation Theory in Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger, and Gadamer, Evanston, Northwestern University Press (one of the first detailed accounts of Gadamer’s thinking, and of hermeneutic theory generally, available in English.) (Scholar)
• –––, 2002, ‘A Response to Richard Wolin on Gadamer and the Nazis’, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 10: 467–82 (replying to Wolin 2000.) (Scholar)
• Robinson, J.M. and Cobb, J. B, (1964), The New Hermeneutic. New York, Harper Row. (Scholar)
• Risser, James, 1997, Hermeneutics and the Voice of the Other: Re-Reading Gadamer’s Philosophical Hermeneutics, Albany, NY: SUNY Press. (Scholar)
• Rorty, Richard, 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Princeton: Princeton University Press. (Scholar)
• Scheibler, Ingrid, 2000, Gadamer. Between Heidegger and Hermeneutics, Lanham, Maryland: Rowman and Littlefield. (Scholar)
• Schmidt, Dennis, 2015, ‘Hermeneutics and Ethical Life: On the Return to Factical Life’, in Keane and Lawn (2015), pp. 65–71. (Scholar)
• Schmidt, Lawrence K., 1985, The Epistemology of Hans-Georg Gadamer, Frankfurt: Peter Lang. (Scholar)
• Silverman, Hugh J. (ed.), 1991, Gadamer and Hermeneutics, New York: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Snodgrass, Adrian and Richard Coyne, 2006, Interpretation in Architecture: Design as Way of Thinking, London: Routledge. (Scholar)
• Sullivan, Robert, 1990, Political Hermeneutics: The Early Thinking of Hans-Georg Gadamer, University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press. (Scholar)
• Svenaueus, Fredrick, 2003, ‘Hermeneutics of Medicine in the wake of Gadamer: The Issue of Phronesis’, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 24: 407–431. (Scholar)
• Wachterhauser, Brice, 1999, Beyond Being: Gadamer’s Post-Platonic Hermeneutic Ontology, Evanston, Illinois: Northwestern University Press. (Scholar)
• Walhof, Darren, 2022, ‘Gadamer’s Contribution to Political Theory’, George and van der Heiden (2022), pp. 418–431. (Scholar)
• Warnke, Georgia, 1987, Gadamer: Hermeneutics, Tradition and Reason, Stanford: Stanford University Press. (Scholar)
• Warnke, Georgia (ed.), 2016, Inheriting Gadamer. New Directions in Philosophical Hermeneutics, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press. (Scholar)
• Weinsheimer, Joel, 1985, Gadamer’s Hermeneutics: A Reading of “Truth and Method”, New Haven: Yale University Press. (Scholar)
• Weinsheimer, Joel, 1991, Philosophical Hermeneutics and Literary Theory, New Haven: Yale University Press. (Scholar)
• Wiercinski, Andrej, 2011, Gadamer’s Hermeneutics and the Art of Conversation, Münster: LIT Verlag. (Scholar)
• Wolin, Richard, 2000, ‘Untruth and Method: Nazism and the Complicities of Hans-Georg Gadamer’, New Republic, 222(20): 36–45 (for the reply, see Palmer 2002). (Scholar)
• Wright, Kathleen (ed.), 1990, Festivals of Interpretation: Essays on Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Work, Albany, NY: SUNY Press. (Scholar)