Linguocentric understanding of world in philosophy of H.-G. Gadamer and L. Wittgenstein

Philosophical hermeneutics and analytical philosophy represent two independent types of knowledge in which, despite of its distinction in methodology and in conceptual techniques, the problem of understanding becomes the common semantic center, where all researches of these differently directed sorts of a discourse are organized around. The specific feature of understanding - how it's conceived in hermeneutical and analytical studies - is a strictly linguistic character of this phenomenon: the understanding is, first of all, an event which happens in language. And just that very event - a general moment of these contrast doctrines -becomes an impulsive cause for theoretical consideration of H.-G. Gadamer and L. Wittgenstein, the founder of philosophical hermeneutics and the initiator of two main trend in analytical philosophy: logical positivism and so-called ordinary language philosophy. The reference point by Gadamer and Wittgenstein's comparison was not so much a desire for finding points of their crossing, as an attempt to show deep internal relationship which exists between two theorist of linguocentric understanding of world. Besides a widespread convergence of Wittgenstein's notion of a language-game and Gadamer's concept of game as a language's unfolding space, except an analogy inevitably comes to mind between an idea that meaning is use and dialogic nature of understanding, another words, between the late searches of Wittgenstein and hermeneutical explication of language by Gadamer - besides this fact it was revealed that the main intension of philosophical hermeneutics doesn't exceed the limits set by "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus": the world is thought of both philosophers as a language picture, and language - as a world picture. The fundamental thesis of Gadamer "being which can be understood is language" appears a mirror reflection of Wittgenstein's well-known statement "what can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence"

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