Round table "Hermeneutics Today" - XXV World Congress of Philosophy, Rome 2024

This round table is devoted to Hermeneutics. It is in memory of Riccardo Dottori and Gianni Vattimo–two great scholars who recently passed by. Both Dottori and Vattimo were close to Hans-Georg Gadamer, translated Gadamer’s monograph “Truth and Method” into the Italian, and made significant contributions to hermeneutics. The round table investigates the core features of today’s hermeneutics (interpretation of religious, literary and philosophical texts; the connection between understanding and communication, or between orality and writing as well as between verbal and non-verbal communication), paying special attention to how the “effected consciousness” (Wirkungsgeschichte) of any kind of interpretation relates to the establishment of “prejudices” as given facts. Important references for a correct engagement with interpretation is represented by Dottori’s notion of “Reflexion des Wirklichen” and Vattimo’s idea of “pensiero debole”: both of them are tackled in the round table.