Subjektivitet i tumačenje u Šlajermaherovoj hermeneutici
Subjectivity and Interpretation in Schleiermacher’s Hermeneutics

Summary/Abstract: Schleiermacher’s project of the universalization of hermeneutics has been seen as the very beginning of its modern history. By dividing the process of interpretation into two separate, but mutually dependent aspects: grammatical (objective) and technical, or psychological (subjective), Schleiermacher conceived the interpretation as a structurally dualistic, but fundamentally infinite process of moving toward the totality of sense. Different readings of Schleiermacher attribute to him either primacy of the linguistic or primacy of the intentional-psychological. The purpose of this work is to put Schleiermacher’s hermeneutics in a dualistic light, whereby we can speak only about a mutual cooperation between two equally important aspects of the interpretation. In such context the problem of subject is defined by its dualistic nature. Moving from one aspect of the interpretation to another, the place of subject reveals itself as essentially problematic. Subjectivity is not considered in the terms of negation and self-determination, so in Schleiermacher there is a subject which constantly finds itself under the power of the objective structures (language, literal-artistic genres, tradition etc.). Therefore, the intention of this papers is to demonstrate that Schleiermacher’s hermeneutics, opposed to all critics of its romantic subjectivism, is not enough subjective. Subject is possible only as a borderline category.

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