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Critical Hermeneutics

2 papers in the library · publishing 2023-2026

Papers

Being from Death

Critical Hermeneutics January 20, 2026 Martín Lorenzo Vargas Aragón

Mourning is simultaneously the process by which the spirit of the dead survives in the living and the primary way the living become spiritually vivified. Death ends human biology but originates human biography, acting as a transcendental function that negates life in an alternative way. This argument, called the Thesis of Animating Mourning, is developed through an orbital model of the person drawing on Ortega's tectonics, Zubiri's concept of appropriation, and Pelegrina's notion of mentality, with additional support from neurophenomenology and logic. The thesis is then applied to anthropological psychiatry.

Doing Truth

Critical Hermeneutics January 27, 2023 Patrizia Manganaro

Religious language involves a distinctive logic of testimony and presence that bridges speech acts and acts of consciousness. The paper argues that analytical philosophy's pragmatic focus and continental philosophy's phenomenological-hermeneutic approach converge on first-person experience of reality, forming what the author terms the intentional-performative. This concept describes a bond of realism, consciousness, and language where logos and action are understood personalistically, together with the experience of truth in the word.