Hermenéutica y sentido del serelementos para una interpretación de la relación filosófica de Heidegger y Gadamer

Abstract

One of the most relevant and problematic questions in the area of hermeneutics is the relationship of Gadamer’s thought with Heidegger’s thought during each of the different periods of development of the former. Gadamer introduced into his work several elements of Heidegger’s continuous questioning about the sense of being, human being’s historicity, language’s role, and the hermeneutic relation where existence takes place. Nonetheless, Gadamer severely criticizes Heidegger’s rejection of humanism and Western metaphysical tradition, Heidegger’s way of conceiving the task of philosophy and the role recognized to the other in his thought. This complex relation between the two authors is interpreted as a dialogue, where their agreements and disagreements revolve around the fundamental problem of being and sense. In both cases, its development supposes broadening the concepts of knowledge and truth, as well as remaking the traditional way of understanding the relation between man, language, and world. The analysis of both the hermeneutic scope of Heidegger’s philosophy, and the explicit development of Gadamer’s thesis about being, shows the special relation in which their philosophical proposals are.