Von der phänomenologischen. Verstehenstheorie zur Phänomenologie der Lesepraxis
Von der phänomenologischen. Verstehenstheorie zur Phänomenologie der Lesepraxis

Summary/Abstract: The phenomena of reading and hearing were among the fundamentalthemes of Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics during the final decades of his life and scientific work. This assertion seems to be strange. Especially if we pay attention to the fact that about the same time he worked on transforminghis initial project of philosophical hermeneutics into the more ambitious hermeneutical philosophy. However, the universality of the phenomena of reading and hearing, which Gadamer defends in his last works, not only confirms but also concretizes the universality of the language dimension of all human experience. This concretization becomes apparent by explicating structural correlation between hearing, understanding, and seeing. In view of these circumstances emerges the necessity of looking at history of the “phenomenological movement” through the prism of the phenomenon of reading, which from the very outset was the implicit aim of phenomenological explications

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