Hermeneutika Anapus Objektyvizmo Ir Reliatyvizmo: Trauminės Atminties Patirtys
Hermeneutics beyond Objectivism and Relativism: Experiences of Traumatic Memory

Summary/Abstract: In this article the hermeneutical theory of the understanding of the historical is applied to the analysis of traumatic historical memories. There is an important hermeneutical precondition of existentiality, also a hermeneutical look from the inside, which breaks pretensions to understand history objectively. The text analyses Gadamer’s theory of the fusion of different historical horizons as a balancing between objectivism and relativism and as directed to understanding a “higher Universality“. This text highlights future-ness that does not put an end to the process of interpretation. Such a theory of understanding history is useful to analyse concrete traumatic historical memories. These experiences stimulate passionate truths that provoke conflicts of interpretations instead of directing people towards “higher” truths. This article shows the friction between such “universality“ and subjective projections paved by pragmatic manipulations. This article discusses the possibility of realizing the principle of a hermeneutical dialogue on the platform of a politics of memory; but this principle should not be understood as striving to common truths but to a harmonious coexistence of differences.

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