Abstract

The adopted directedness of Western thinking to the visible and visibility as the Platonist heritage has been explored frequently enough; the issue of how to reflect upon the crisis of this directedness through philosophy of language has been tackled in the last third of the 20th century primarily by means of hermeneutic theory. Reflecting the status of thinking and human constitution of the world as a whole in their dependence on language, which followed the hermeneutic requirement for universality, has led to an attempt to free the sphere of “listening to language” in its world-constitutive meaning from its almost millennial suppression. By doing so, hermeneutics would regain its fundamental “acroamatic” dimension. It is a process determined by its penetration into the concealed depths of the Western philosophy of language and science