통합적 해석학 구상을 위한 시론—발전사의 관점에서 ‘형성체’와 ‘해석학적 동일성’을 중심으로—

Abstract

This study set out to explore the possibilities of “integrated hermeneutics” to achieve integration in the dichotomous discourse topography of hermeneutics, which has been divided between “methodological hermeneutics” and “ontological hermeneutics,” in Gadamer’s Truth and Method. The dichotomous research trend in hermeneutics has been increasingly severe, and there seems to be a gap that will not be communicated between the two sides. As a result, a common idea is settling down that two branches of hermeneutics can achieve legitimacy or academic value only individually. In this trend, there has been no proposal of an integrated view for hermeneutics despite its need. Trying to present a ground for integrated hermeneutics, the investigator maintained that Gadamer’s hermeneutics was not to deny methodological hermeneutics but to inherit it through conquest and transformation. The present study also tried to demonstrate that the dichotomous confrontation between methodological and ontological hermeneutics derived from a misunderstanding of Gadamer’s hermeneutics in many parts. Proposed in the study as media for integrated hermeneutics were ‘Gebilde’ and ‘Hermeneutische Identität.’ Although these concepts were at the center of criticisms about Gadamer, they had received little attention because the two concepts were considered to be difficult to harmonize with each other or contradict each other. These concepts should, however, be discussed together and illuminated in a new perspective through more researches in order to figure out Gadamer’s hermeneutics in balance and further propose a developmental outlook for it. The concepts may contribute to the conquest of dichotomous discussions by wiping out common misunderstandings of Gadamer’s hermeneutics such as ‘philosophy devoted to being,’ ‘supremacy of interpretation’, and ‘relativism of understanding’.