The phenomenological turn of hermeneutics according to Heidegger, Gadamer and Ricoeur

the text is the translation into Spanish of a chapter from Le tournant hermeneutique de la phenomenologie that Professor Grondin has generously reviewed and corrected for this Dossier. The author argues in this book that the hermeneutical turn so much talked about is actually the name of a radicalization of the program and of the phenomenological view that shows itself attentive to the linguistic and historical condition of meaning. If the craftsman of this turn was, without a doubt, Heidegger, Grondin is convinced that it was already taking shape in Husserlian phenomenology itself. The thesis that underlies the entire book is the reciprocal need for both the phenomenological view and the hermeneutic view to give an account of our life situation. The section presented here explores how Heidegger, Gadamer and Ricoeur understood the relationship between phenomenology and hermeneutics to conclude that "A phenomenology without hermeneutics is blind and a hermeneutics without phenomenology remains empty".