This writing seeks to expose, in a limited way, a problem inherent to the hermeneutical interpretation of texts: how to ensure adequate understanding of the text, how to gain access to the meaning of the text; in other words, through what procedures a good interpretation of the text in front of there can be ensured. For this reason, the difficulties that arise in the interpretive task will be highlighted: the situation of historical-temporal distancing and its duplicity character, the problem of the author’s intention or the autonomy of the text, the problem of the unity of meaning of the text or the plurality of this that makes erosion and bursts like flow in the writing, etc. These difficulties lead to a radical approach to the question for the plausibility of a hermeneutical interpretation of the text. To address this task and probe the aforementioned difficulties, the proposals of ...

This paper aims to address a problem in Schopenhauer’s philosophy, specifically, regarding his aesthetics. The problem in question is to determine if it is possible, as a key to hermeneutic reading, to sustain that art provides a liberation to the subject that has the aesthetic experience, understanding that the liberation refers to a suspension in the existence of all volition and desiderative character of the will. The matter is problematic when considering in detail what the german thinker describes as the will, with all its implications: clarifying the term will, it can be found that, at first sight, there is not really a necessity that allows drawing clear conclusions about the function that art fulfills in a possible liberation of the subject from all volition, while he is immersed in a contemplation of an aesthetic nature. However, here it is proposed to demonstrate that, althou...