Richard Palmer has lectured on and written about hermeneutics (theory of understanding and interpretation) for more than three decades. His introduction to the subject, written in 1969, has become a standard text.

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His four years of postdoctoral study in Heidelberg, Germany, with Hans-Georg Gadamer, scattered over four decades, from 1965 to 1996 and including two Fulbright Grants in the nineties, have been the foundation for dozens of articles and translations gathered together here. A high-point in his career was participating in a seminar with Martin Heidegger in 1965 followed by a three-hour dinner conversing with him about his works and life after the war. In 1999 Palmer retired to devote himself to translating and writing about the works and hermeneutical philosophy of Hans-Georg Gadamer.