Theodore George

Theodore Dennis George (born 1971) is an American philosopher and professor and chair of the department of philosophy at Texas A&M University. He is known for his expertise on post-Kantian philosophy and hermeneutics, in particular, his work on Hans-Georg Gadamer. George is the editor of Epoché: A Journal for the History of Philosophy.^[1][2] He was the president of North American Society for Philosophical Hermeneutics between 2013 and 2016.

Theodore D. George
Born	1971 (age 53–54)
Awards	John Tich Award for Scholarly Excellence, Association of Former Students Teaching Award
Academic background
Education	Whitman College Villanova University (PhD)
Thesis	Hegel's Speculative Theory of Political Life: Community and Tragedy in the "Phenomenology of Spirit" (2000)
Doctoral advisor	Dennis J. Schmidt
Academic work
Era	Contemporary philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School or tradition	Continental
Institutions	Texas A&M University
Main interests	Hermeneutics, philosophy of art, post-Kantian philosophy

Books

• The Responsibility to Understand: Hermeneutical Contours of Ethical Life (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020)
• Charles Bambach and Theodore George, eds., Philosophers and their Poets: Reflections on the Poetic Turn in Philosophy Since Kant (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2019)
• Tragedies of Spirit: Tracing Finitude in Hegel’s Phenomenology (State University of New York Press, 2006; paperback, 2007), ISBN 978-0791468654
• Günter Figal, Objectivity: The Hermeneutical and Philosophy (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2010), English translation of Günter Figal, Gegenständlichkeit: Das Hermeneutische und die Philosophie (Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006). Paperback edition: July 2011.

Articles

• George, Theodore. “Art as Testimony of Tradition and as Testimony of Ordering.” Internationales Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik 16 (2007): 107–120.
• George, Theodore. “What is the Future of the Past? Gadamer and Hegel on Truth, Art, and the Ruptures of Tradition.” Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 40 (2009): 4–20.
• George, Theodore. “From Work to Play: Gadamer on the Affinity of Art, Truth, and Beauty.” Internationales Jahrbuch für Hermeneutik, 10 (2011): 107–122.
• George, Theodore. "Thing, Object, Life." Research in Phenomenology 42 (2012): 18–43.
• George, Theodore. "Are We a Conversation? Hermeneutics, Exteriority, and Transmittability." Research in Phenomenology 47 (2017): 331–350.