期刊名称：Labyrinth: An International Journal for Philosophy, Value Theory and Sociocultural Hermeneutics
印刷版ISSN：2410-4817
电子版ISSN：1561-8927
出版年度：2022
卷号：24
期号：1
DOI：10.25180/lj.v24i1.278
语种：German
出版社：Axia Academic Publishers
摘要：The purpose of this paper is twofold: firstly, it aims to analyze the philosophical debate between Gadamer and Blumenberg concerning the notion of secularization, which, in the author's view, has received less attention than it deserves; secondly, it intends thereby to shed light on an ontological ambiguity in Gadamer's hermeneutics, unintentionally detected by Blumenberg in his reply to Gadamer's review of The Legitimacy of the Modern Age. The importance of the paper is both historical-philosophical and theoretical: it spells out different aspects of a philosophical discussion whose relevance concern not only the secularization debate, but more generally the philosophy of history and the role of metaphors in understanding. The most relevant original contribution consists in the usage of Blumenberg's notion of background metaphorics as a tool for interpreting the role of the notion of history of effects in Gadamer's hermeneutics.
