Jean Grondin (1955) studied at the Universities of Montreal, Heidelberg and Tübingen (Ph.D. 1982). Between 1982 and 1990 he taught at Laval University (Quebec) and 1990-91 at the University of Ottawa. Since 1991 he is professor of philosophy at the University of Montreal. Fellow of the Conseil de Recherches en Sciences Humaines du Canada and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Honorary Doctor of the University of St. Thomas Aquinas North (UNSTA) of Tucuman (Argentina) and appointed to the Killam Foundation. Directs, among other research projects related to the history of metaphysics and hermeneutics, and is a renowned scholar of the philosophical work of Martin Heidegger and Hans-Georg Gadamer._x000D_

The publisher Herder publishes the following titles of Jean Grondin, Introduction to Philosophical Hermeneutics (1999), Gadamer. A Biography (2000), Introduction to Gadamer (2003), The Meaning of Life (2003), Introduction to Metaphysics (2006) and What is Hermeneutics? (2008)