Myth, “Thing” and Understanding in Gadamer

Abstract

Before developing a few considerations on this theme, I would like to recall how man today feels disoriented, from different points of view and aspects. That’s because, on one hand, the certainties of the past have faded out, and, on the other, the sense of the resources of criticism has increased, spreading a taste for survey and discourse. Ours is an age of anxiety and examination. In all that there is enclosed also the need for decision and response, notwithstanding the difficulty that involves. Without talking at length, I would like to underline how this time of criticism and anxiety needs a different approach, that has been urged by hermeneutical philosophy.