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On Adrian Marino’s Hermeneutics

Summary/Abstract: This study deals with Adrian Marino’s hermeneutical work developed in the 1970s – a pioneer of Romanian culture, given the intellectual climate of that age –, based on his writings on Mircea Eliade’s hermeneutics and the hermeneutics of literature. This hermeneutical achievement is examined from two aspects: first, we try to follow the justification of Marino’s basic hypothesis that Mircea Eliade’s aims to unfold the meanings of the different historical forms in the universal religious mythology and system of symbols, are in fact not only studies of the history of religion, anthropology or phenomenology, but in fact evolve as a universal hermeneutical theory of Gadamerian proportions. On the other hand, we attempt to show the insufficiencies and limitations of Marino’s hermeneutical outlook, which are inherent to his structuralist approach and his commitment to an epistemological-methodological view. Confronting Marino’s problems with Eliade’s remarks and the related thoughts of Gadamer and Ricoeur, this study concludes that Marino’s specific misapprehensions on the hermeneutical conception emerge precisely from the hermeneutical situation that is the medium of his research, and that these misapprehensions are in fact hermeneutically prolific.

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