On the genesis of meaning in the ontological hermeneutics of Heidegger and Gadamer

Abstract

The facticity as a theme and insuperable element of the hermeneutics are part of the beginning of the original program of Heidegger in its beginnings. From there the Heideggerian project embarks on hermeneutical analysis in order to achieve the conceptual genesis that articulates our experience in the world. This analytical mode called "genetic semantics" entails an inherent distinction to the discourse (Rede) between the ontic statement and the ontological or hermeneutic statement. The present work tries to show, in the first place, how this genetic semantics is forged in the Heideggerian hermeneutics and how it is said to "urbanize" in the philosophical hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer. Then, secondly, the differences between the positions will be shown to conclude, as a thesis, that the Gadamerian hermeneutics subsumes the semantic level of the genesis of meaning at the pragmatic level enunciated, proposing, in this way, a "genetic pragmatics".