Original scientific paper

The (Non)Site of Atopon. Rhetorical Positivity, Hermeneutical Negativity and the Privative of World

Myroslav Feodosijevič Hryschko ; Ljubljana, Slovenia

Abstract

Insofar as the references to the concept atopon within the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer are rare, this obscurity contrasts with the significance Gadamer attributes to the term: it may be read as a phenomenon upon which philosophical hermeneutics is contingent. Our text offers a reading of atopon as it is developed in Gadamer’s text “Rhetorik, Hermeneutik und Ideologiekritik”. The schema proposed by Gadamer is a transitory series where atopon serves as the grounding phenomenon giving a potential rhetorical or hermeneutical linguisticality. This schema thusly yields a rudimentary image of possible accounts of atopon and serves as an aperture towards a further development of the concept.

Keywords

atopon; hermeneutics; rhetoric; world; topos; thaumazein; Hans Georg Gadamer

Hrčak ID:

30806

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/30806

Publication date:

23.7.2008.

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