HERMENEUTICS AS AN EVENT OF MEANING: BETWEEN LANGUAGE, BEING, AND HISTORY

Abstract

The article explores a radical shift in contemporary philosophy – from a technical conception of understanding to its interpretation as an event occurring at the intersection of language, being, and history. The author develops an ontologically oriented hermeneutics that treats meaning not as a pre-given essence, but as something that arises anew each time – in dialogue, linguistic articulation, and historical situation. Understanding appears not as a neutral transmission of meaning, but as a living, unpredictable encounter that transforms not only the content but also the interpreter themselves. Hermeneutics is presented not as a method, but as a mode of human existence that opens a space for self-understanding and dialogue. Drawing on classical thinkers (Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger, Gadamer, Ricœur) and contemporary scholars (Walhof, Carvalho, Engelland, Rossoni), the author emphasizes that language is not a tool of transmission, but an event of meaning’s emergence. The article analyzes the hermeneutic circle, the intersubjective conditioning of understanding, and the historicity of meaning as a space for the formation of identity. In the post-truth era, hermeneutics emerges not only as a philosophical stance, but as an existential necessity that helps human beings find themselves within a world of meaning pluralism.