HERMENEUTICĂ ȘI ISTORIE: CAZUL HANS GEORG GADAMER
HERMENEUTICS AND HISTORY: THE CASE OF HANS GEORG GADAMER

Summary/Abstract: This paper argues for the replacement of the term historiography with a broader one of historical culture in order to look into the ins and outs of how the results of academic investigations are received by society, and also how it reacts, in its turn, more often than not influencing the readjustment of the discourses on the past. That is so because the interest in history is at the same time, implicitly or surprisingly, an interest in other fields of significance like funeral cults, monuments and cemeteries, travel or confessional writing, tastes, aesthetic standards, museums, maps, landscapes. In any case, professional research and public taste for what used to be in the past are not the same thing. The social interest in history is not the same thing as the interest in recording it in writing, the two registers competing most of the times and collaborating only when they have to. But each historiography illustrates, in a more or less conscious way, a stage in the history of ways of knowing. In other words, any period in the history of writing about history starts from a certain theory of knowledge, truth and the methods of finding it out. However, this outlook is not exclusively scholarly, the society of the time participating in its formulation, with all the sensibilities, prejudices and fashions that characterized it.

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