Analecta Hermeneutica

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Volume 19 (2027) Philosophical Hermeneutics, Otherwise:
Dispersed Writings, Conversation, and Correspondence
at the Boundaries of Philosophical Writing
Guest Editor: Facundo Bey (INEO-CIF/CONICET)

Deadline: 15 February 2027

The reception of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s thought has been shaped, to a degree perhaps unmatched in twentieth-century philosophy, by a remarkably circumscribed body of work. Wahrheit und Methode (1960), the ten volumes of the Gesammelte Werke, and a small number of books, lectures, and essays published outside that edition have furnished the almost exclusive basis for engagement with his hermeneutics. And yet a substantial body of philosophical material lies beyond these canonical boundaries: newspaper articles, public lectures, radio and television appearances, occasional essays published in little-known venues, published and unpublished correspondence, and a rich corpus of interviews spanning more than five decades.

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This material has largely been treated, when noticed at all, as secondary matter: anticipation of later
works, biographical supplement, popularization, or anecdotal paratext to the ‘real’ philosophy contained in the books and essays. The first of these treatments is particularly insidious, since teleological projections obscure both the specificity of the earlier elaborations and what is distinctive in their later reworkings. This special issue challenges that assumption. It proposes that these non-canonical genres constitute a substantive collection whose sustained interrogation transforms our understanding of Gadamer’s thought and of the boundaries of philosophical writing itself. Though Gadamer provides the paradigmatic case around which the volume is organized, the questions it opens extend well beyond his work alone, and contributions on other thinkers whose writing raises comparable questions are equally welcome.