Rudolf Bultmann ve Hans-Georg Gadamer: Karşılaşmaları, Etkileşimleri ve Anlaşmazlıklarına Dair Bir Değerlendirme
Rudolf Bultmann and Hans-Georg Gadamer: A Review on Their Encounters, Interactions, and Conflicts

Summary/Abstract: This article aims (1) to explore the intersections of Rudolf Bultmann and Hans-Georg Gadamer- one theologian and the other philosopher, the leading two figures of 20th-century hermeneutics- (2) to address the platial and textual interactions of these two thinkers, and finally (3) to scrutinize their main disagreements in their understanding of hermeneutics. Bultmann and Gadamer, during the years they spent together in Marburg, both engaged in the hermeneutical activities of reading and interpreting classical texts and aimed to transform hermeneutics into a supradisciplinary field through different channels such as theology, philosophy, history, and literature in the 20th century. Despite all their differences and disagreements, these two thinkers have transformed Martin Heidegger’s existential philosophy and his critique of objectifying thinking into hermeneutic procedures for the reception of classical and eminent texts-sacred or not-and for the methods of how the contemporary reader appropriates them, i.e., making them their own. Thus, historical texts will be revived for the reader here and now, and a genuine dialogue will occur between them. As a result, with the works of the theologian Bultmann and the philosopher Gadamer, the hallmark of hermeneutics has been to propose a manner for how to read classical and eminent texts more effectively. The purpose of this article is to trace the lifelong conversation of Bultmann and Gadamer, who created this proposal, and to show the dynamics of overlap and conflict that expand a wide academic field, from theology to philosophy, history to literary theory.

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