Berezina V. The Relationship between Understanding and Speech as the Object of the Philosophical Hermeneutics

The dissertation examines the relationship between understanding and speech as the object of philosophical hermeneutics. The research clarifies and evaluates the impact of this relationship on the experience's structure. Having examined understanding and speech as interrelated phenomena, the author proved the universal linguisticality of man's experience, which is first of all the experience of understanding. In the paper the basic notions of philosophical hermeneutics regarding phenomenology and rhetorical-humanistic traditions are investigated. The hermeneutic principle of historicity is investigated through such phenomenological concepts as lifeworld, horizon, intersubjectivity. The antisubjective and antiinstrumental attitudes are studied with the help of such concepts as consciousness of effective history, common sense and metaphor. Understanding is ascertained to be unobjectifyable experience of truth and essentially unfinished process. It has structure of dialogue since it means openness to the Other.