Autoexhibición y comprensión

Gadamer y la radicalización ontológica de la hermenéutica

Abstract

Gadamer’s hermeneutics comprehensive project is to be understood in terms of an expanded alethiology, in which the phenomenon of comprehension – considered as an experience of sense – acquires a central role. For Gadamer, the essential hermeneutic phenomenon, which is also the essential ontological phenomenon, corresponds to the autoexhibition of what is open to comprehension. Such autoexhibition takes place, paradigmatically, through two elemental modalities that Gadamer identifies as the “coming to (auto) exhibition” (zur Darstellung kommen) and the “coming of language” (zur Sprache kommen). Both modalities refer to the same essential hermeneutic phenomenon.