Valențe alethice ale artei: o perspectivă fenomenologico – hermeneutică asupra adevărului artistic
Alethic Aspects of Art: A Phenomenological Hermeneutical Perspective on Artistic Truth

Summary/Abstract: The present study shows the pertinence of a truth concept based on the Phenomenological Hermeneutics, a concept capable of retrieving the truth of the art work. The hermeneutical experience is not a scientific research method. It describes the way in which all human experiences take place. The philosophical analyses of Hans Georg Gadamer show that the hermeneutical experience allows us to retrieve the truth of the non-scientific areas, namely of art. Truth is not a question method use, but of engaging into conversation. Dialogue is more than a communication way, it forms the very structure of human understanding. Gadamer’s analyses of the statement’s logical structure show that truth happens by placing oneself in the interrogative situation of dialogue. The language’s enlightenment power is inherent to Logos. This Ancient Greek concept means that the world can manifest itself and can be understood only through language. Truth is like play in the way we are conquered by the game of language when understanding happens. Understanding is gaining a new perspective on the world and it has the structure of dialogue, because it submits to the dialectics of questioning and answering and it depends on grasping the truth of a different world horizon, enlarging our own in the process. Experiencing art through the hermeneutical consciousness is understanding art as play and dialogue. The experience of the art work is similar to that of the play, in which we are being completely seduced by its world, which we experience with sacred seriousness. The experience of the art work is engaging oneself into dialogue with the work and understanding what it reveals to us. The truth value of the art work doesn’t depend on its correspondence with reality, but on the way in which the art work discloses to us something important of our world which it transfigures through fiction. The fiction’s alethic value has been underlined by philosophers such as Heidegger, Gadamer, Dufrenne, Ricoeur and their followers. Through art we gain a new meaning of the world. The world of the art is rooted in the human experience of the world, of the common ground of existence, in the world of life. Art’s vision is as legit as that offered to us by science or religion. The relevance of this dialogical concept of truth and its consequences for the art work are discussed in this study by analyzing both classical and recent contributions to hermeneutical phenomenology.

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