Understanding and Subjectivity: Hermeneutical Strategies of H.-G. Gadamer and K.-O. Apel

Polemic of K.-O. Apel against H.-G. Gadamers philosophical hermeneutics moots the problem of demarcation between pragmatic-methodological and ontological strategies in hermeneutics. This problem is treated in the paper on the ground of analysis of the role of subjectivity in the communicative models of the two thinkers. The result is the contrast between the pragmatic «regulative idea» of the total subjectivity in Apel and the ontological destruction of subjectivity in Gadamer.

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