Truth and method in 2 vol. Vol. 1. Basics of philosophical hermeneutics (Trans. from Germ. by Oleksandr Mokrovolskyi): Kyiv, Yunivers, 2000, 464 p.

This book is Gadamer's magnum opus, to which the author devoted 10 years. The work is considered to be a defining one for the twentieth century. In it, Gadamer describes the circular nature of understanding discovered by Heidegger. The book has an anti-enlightenment orientation, as it restores the authority of the tradition. ‘Truth and Method’ probably bears the imprint of Husserl's struggle against naturalism, as Gadamer raises the problem of the significance of art, the conditionality of statistical methods by the questions they answer, and points out that the sociality of the structure of life is a prerequisite for understanding. The work covers the following topics: historical cognition, textual criticism, legal hermeneutics, hermeneutics of understanding (phenomenological hermeneutics). In addition, it aims to address the problems of moral and practical philosophy. In the final part, Gadamer develops an ontology of language as a space of understanding.