The present of hermeneutics. An interview with Jean Grondin and Ramón Rodríguez

Abstract

The present of hermeneutics resides in its dialogue with the philosophical tradition. First of all, this dialogue starts with its reception of Husserl, which cannot be understood as the betrayal of the phenomenological project but the attempt to take it to its logical conclusion. Secondly, the interest on the modern project (an interest that cannot be thought as a destruction but as an attempt to understand it) leads to a dialogue with Kant and to the debate about the position of the trascendental subject as a condition of objectivity. It is precisely this idea of the dialogue which defines hermeneutics as an opening to the other and not as an exercise of assimilation. Finally, if this opening does not crystallize into a defined ethical project it is because it tries to think the foundation of ethics.