HERMENEUTICS, PRACTICE, EVENT: AN ATTEMPT AT RE-CONCEPTUALIZING HUMAN AGENCY

In connection with this, critics called for a move beyond hermeneutics, towards a social theory that is to analyze the structure and dynamics of power and domination for the sake of the concrete realization of dialogueaccommodating communities. [...]a typology, also supported by Gadamer's ontol...

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Veröffentlicht in:Phainomena 2023-06, Vol.32 (124/125), p.29-52
1. Verfasser: Nyíro, Miklós
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:In connection with this, critics called for a move beyond hermeneutics, towards a social theory that is to analyze the structure and dynamics of power and domination for the sake of the concrete realization of dialogueaccommodating communities. [...]a typology, also supported by Gadamer's ontological exposition of the Being of artwork, promises to shed some light on the crisis previously highlighted in the very heart of the prospects of praxis. [...]in what follows I firstly summarize the problem of practice in two steps, namely, by showing the way it figures in the tradition of hermeneutics and especially in the works of the early Heidegger and Gadamer, and also by pointing out the supposedly paradoxical conditions that efforts to implement praxis-accommodating communities must face within the context of the (post)modern era. [...]I focus on the type of activity that the distinction of the Greeks cannot account for and I exhibit both Gadamer's parallel insights and the sense, in which this type of activity is able to shed light on the supposed paradox of praxis. [...]one of the peculiarities of Gadamer's Truth and Method is that it presents the "hermeneutic phenomenon" as if its relevance pertained mainly to the problem of the self-understanding of humanities.4 However, Gadamer's lifelong concern revolved around the significance of what can be called the principle of dialogicality, namely, the peculiar role that the true (Socratic) dialogue plays not only in the field of the disciplines-already in the emergence of Aristotelian apophantic discourse-, but also in the communal
ISSN:1318-3362
2232-6650
DOI:10.32022/PHI32.2023.124-125.2