The Search for Authentic Understanding and the Birth of Radical Hermeneutics

• Main Author: Doan, Tran Van
• Format: text
• Published: Archīum Ateneo 2024
• Subjects: radical hermeneutics; Kant; Heidegger; Gadamer; Derrida
• Online Access: https://archium.ateneo.edu/budhi/vol17/iss2/3; https://archium.ateneo.edu/context/budhi/article/1296/viewcontent/Budhi_2017.2_203_20Article_20__20Doan.pdf
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

This paper argues that it is the human search for authentic understanding that gives birth to radical hermeneutics, and not the reverse. Radical hermeneutics in the "contemporary" sense begins with Martin Heidegger's critical reinterpretation of Immanuel Kant's answer to the ques...