Hermeneutika mint társadalomkritikai paradigmaváltás
Hermeneutics as Paradigm-Change in Social Critique

Summary/Abstract: The main statement of the paper is that ‒ as opposed to the principal types of traditional social critique originating in the ideas of the Enlightenment ‒ it is hermeneutic philosophy that defends the most democratic form of ‘rationality,’ and thereby, that of ‘critique’, namely, a social critique exercised by the practical reason of the citizens themselves. As a substantiation of this claim, first I reconstruct ‒ via relying on Habermas’ argument ‒ the Hegelian critique of modernity, and then the three main versions of such a critique developed in the subsequent confrontation with Hegel. It is in contrast to these‒ and to the notions of ‘reason’ and ‘understanding’ operative in them ‒ that I try to show just what kind of social-political significance is ascribable to the specifically hermeneutic ‘rationality’ defended within the frames of Heidegger’s philosophy and then further developed by Gadamer.

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