Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2010
Abstract
The study pursues a confrontation between the philosophy of language of Walter Benjamin and the conception of language of H.-G. Gadamer.
After the determination of the most problematic points of Gadamer´s conception, the paper explicates Benjamin´s philosophy of language and tries to identify an alternative approach to the same crux of the problem in it. This comparative analysis tries to answer the question of the proper task of understanding as well as the question of the proper concept of truth in view of this task.
The analysis enables us to interpret the notion of hermeneutical experience, more precisely the notion of "Anwendung", as the translation in terms of Benjamin´s philosophy of language.