Abstract

In this article, I must say that Gadamer's hermeneutics in the text meaning and interpretation of the relationship between: this sense of history but by the interpreter and the text of the historical situation of the situation together generated. This article first shows up to the United States for the "hermeneutic circle" and his interpretation of the text and the historical situation of those views. Secondly, I am up to the United States from the time , before the integrity of the concept of and the fusion concept, in order to explain the meaning of the text by the text's history and interpretation common situation arising. Third, I will explore three possible "I ─ you" relationship, and that the only way to open "I ─ you" relationship with the text interpreter in order to reach a consensus and this consensus is still the meaning of the text itself. Finally, in fact, with the object and purpose of his idea of hermeneutics is closely related. In this paper I attempt to show Gadamer's theory of the relationship between the interpreter and the meaning of text. I shall argue that, for Gadamer, the text's meaning is always co-produced by the historical situation of the interpreter and that of the text. First, I introduce the Gadamerian concepts of hermeneutical circle and the historical situation of both the interpreter and the text. Second, I argue, in terms of three Gadamerian concepts: temporal distance, fore-conception of completeness, and fusion of horizons, that the text's meaning is co-produced by the historical situation of the interpreter and that of the text. Third, I analyze three kinds of "I-Thou relation" in order to point out that only with an open "I-Thou relation" can the interpreter and the text reach an agreement, which is also the meaning of the text. Finally, I argue that Gadamer's theory of the relationship between the interpreter and the meaning of text is in fact grounded on his view of the aim of hermeneutics