Towards a “Hermeneutics of Historical Consciousness”? Questioning Ric ur

In the present text I address some problems regarding the hermeneutical project developed by Paul Ric ur. Hence, I attempt (1) to highlight three issues which confine the difficulty in understanding Paul Ric ur’s hermeneutics, and (2) to point out, as an example, that Ric ur’s “hermeneutics of historical consciousness” addresses a non-hermeneutic debate. The indirect thesis of my text is that one always has to consider Ric ur’s hermeneutics as a “work in progress” even when he clearly emphasizes that “the text” must be regarded as the centre of hermeneutics and my main thesis is that one always has to pay particular attention to Ric ur’s non-hermeneutic insights when he addresses a hermeneutic problem.