Wachheit. La (ri)comparsa del tema della vigilanza nella presentazione dell’ermeneutica gadameriana degli anni Ottanta

In the 1986 edition of Wahrheit und Methode Gadamer starts to describe the role of his hermeneutics in terms of «vigilance (Wachheit)», being awake, rather than in those of «task (Aufgabe)». Starting from this point, the author shows that this idea is not a new one in Gadamer's thought: the theme of the Wachheit is taken from the essay Praktischen Wissen, written by Gadamer in 1930 and published in 1985. The re-thinking of the concept of Wachheit influences Gadamer's last works, where phronesis is described like a Wachheit of the practical reason.