Abstract
This chapter examines the philosophical reflections of Paul Ricoeur and Hans-Georg Gadamer regarding the link between history and hermeneutics. Ricoeur's reflection on history is principally focused on the status of historiographical knowledge and texts, and in this regard, his theory overcomes conventional epistemology because the relation between historical knowledge and the real past is a “re-creative” or reconfigurative relation. In the case of Gadamer, it was he who most forcefully expressed the linkage of epistemology and ontology in the intermediary dimension of hermeneutics. The chapter also considers a “dialectical” conception of traditionality that can rightfully be maintained only on the condition (which both Gadamer and Ricour observe) of renouncing the totalization of experience in an absolute knowledge.
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