TY - JOUR
AU - Kisiel, Theodore
AB - THEODORE KISIEL Northern Illinois University De Kalb, Illinois THE HAPPENING OF TRADITION: THE HERMENEUTICS OF GADAMER AND HEIDEGGER From the exegesis of Biblical texts to the methodical interpretation of the human actions that constitute history, the hermeneutical in general pertains to the process of exposing hidden meanings. Uncovering the sense of classical texts, understanding a poem, performing one of Shake- speare's plays, interpreting the precedents of the law in a particular case, reading the historical signs of the times - all of these aporetic situations have come to be seen within the purview of a hermeneutic, whether as a science or the art of interpretation. At first, in the ancient philological tradition, hermeneutics was an occasional affair, to be evoked only when some inherent obscurity blocked textual understanding. Later, in the romantic period of the nineteenth century, Schleiermacher and Dilthey projected hermeneutics as the general method of the humanities, a movement which inspired, among other things, the Verstehen approach in psychology and sociology. But it was Heidegger who went even further and suggested that man's existence in the aporia of Being is hermeneutical through and through. Although his hermeneutic of existence is still linked with the phenomenological "method" of 
TI - The happening of tradition: The hermeneutics of Gadamer and Heidegger
JF - Continental Philosophy Review
DO - 10.1007/BF01252571
DA - 2005-02-16
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/the-happening-of-tradition-the-hermeneutics-of-gadamer-and-heidegger-cWLBYDChVR
SP - 358
EP - 385
VL - 2
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -