La contemporaneidad según el diálogo de Søren Kierkegaard con Hans-Georg Gadamer

Abstract

Contemporaneity is for the philosophical hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer the most important moment of the process of understanding. It is the moment of the actualization in time and of time of the possibilities of meaning of a reality that is a task for my conscious. This idea has been taken explicitly by Gadamer from the Danish philosopher Sören Kierkegaard. Then the aim of this paper is to analyze in a comparative way the relationships and compatibilities of the idea of contemporaneity in Gadamer and Kierkegaard. Analyzing how the contemporaneity is not only a linguistic approach but more an existential anthropological even metaphysical and religious one. The path for this is first understanding the idea of contemporaneity in Gadamer mainly form “Truth and Method” and analyzing the idea on Kierkegaard in two ways: conceptually and by an exercise of contemporaneity the first, in “Philosophical Fragments” and the second by “Fear and Trembling”.