In 1965 Ricoeur published an article entitled “Existence and hermeneutics” in which he distinguished two ways of understanding hermeneutics: the short way and the long way. This distinction, of a net methodological cut, had the fundamental intention of differentiating the Heideggerian ontological project from its own way of conceiving hermeneutics. The crucial difference between Heidegger and Ricoeur lies in what might be called the explicit incorporation of the problem of method into the realm of hermeneutical reflection. According to Ricoeur's reading, the Heideggerian ontological project is characterized precisely by proposing direct access, without any methodological detour, to the subject of research. This image of the formation of the concepts of Heideggerian thought, which dispenses with the methodological problem of the path to the philosophical point of view, which defends something like a kind of uncritical intuitionism, and which validates itself in the analytics of Dasein's finitude, lost plausibility and argumentative force. From the beginning of his philosophical journey to the end, Heidegger explicitly reflected on the method of philosophy conceived as original logic. The third volume of Studia Heideggeriana collects different studies on the problem of the method of philosophy in the work of Martin Heidegger. All the works expose various aspects of this struggle that Heidegger undertook in the 1920s and that continued throughout his philosophical production. In this way Studia Heideggeriana III is presented as a decisive contribution in the Spanish and Portuguese languages to the analysis of a nodal theme of Heidegger's work.
Published: Jul 30, 2014