The critical dialogue between Ángel Rama and Antonio Candido in the perspective of Gadamer’s hermeneutics

• Autor(a) principal: Canani, Ney A. G.
• Data de Publicação: 2019
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Scripta
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.pucminas.br/index.php/scripta/article/view/22153
• topic: Hermeneutics; Literary Criticism; Cultural Criticism; Antonio Candido; Ángel Rama; Hermenêutica; Crítica Literária; Crítica Cultural; Antonio Candido; Ángel Rama

The temporal distance that separates us from the work of Candido and Rama allow us to situate these authors within a historical period – marked by the consolidation of the national state and the belief in modernization as a homogenizing force in society – which has already been ended and can thus be seen as a unity in itself. In Gadamer terms, one can say that this tradition is sufficiently dead so that we can comprehend it as a whole. On the other hand, the problems that affect Latin American criticism today are not so different from the ones tackled by those authors. Because the effects of the tradition of Candido and Rama can still be felt today, there is interest in keeping alive a dialogue with them. In this process, we are invited to rethink our place in the tradition which was handed down to us and reconcile aesthetics with cultural criticism.