La relevancia del pensamiento de Gadamer en la filosofía: más allá de la modernidad y la posmodernidad

Abstract

This paper discusses some of the main contributions of Hans-Georg Gadamer to the philosophical debate at the end of the twentieth century. Two of his contributions stand out in the paper: Gadamer's criticism of dogmatic faith in the scientific method and his criticism of a transcendental a-historical individual subject. In the elaboration of such criticisms, there is an emphasis in the reconstruction of the concept of traditions, as well as the notion of phronesis. The paper concludes that these Gadamerian notions offer an alternative way of conceiving rationality, which overcomes the dilemma between the a-historical and universalistic views that are common in modern philosophy, and the historical, but relativistic, conceptions that dominate postmodern philosophy.