“Apel and Gadamer’s Philosophical Hermeneutics”. This paper seeks to reconstruct the core of Apel’s criticism of Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics. In order to achieve this, three texts post-Transformation of Philosophy by Apel are analyzed. All of them go beyond the debate between hermeneutics and critique of ideology. Throughout the paper I will attempt to demonstrate that the concepts introduced by Apel offer the possibility of an enlightened or critical normative hermeneutics.

En el presente trabajo se reconstruye el núcleo de la crítica de Apel a la hermenéutica filosófica de Gadamer. Para ello se analizan tres textos de Apel posteriores a La transformación de la filosofía y que por lo tanto van más allá del debate entre hermenéutica y crítica de las ideologías. A lo largo del trabajo se intentará mostrar que los conceptos vertidos por Apel pueden abrir la posibilidad de una hermenéutica ilustrada o crítico-normativa.

“Apel and Gadamer’s Philosophical Hermeneutics”. This paper seeks to reconstruct the core of Apel’s criticism of Gadamer’s philosophical hermeneutics. In order to achieve this, three texts post-Transformation of Philosophy by Apel are analyzed. All of them go beyond the debate between hermeneutics and critique of ideology. Throughout the paper I will attempt to demonstrate that the concepts introduced by Apel offer the possibility of an enlightened or critical normative hermeneutics.