Abstract

RIVERA, Víctor Samuel. Event and Miracle. 9/11: Gianni Vattimo or Joseph de Maistre?. Diánoia [online]. 2017, vol.62, n.79, pp.49-76. ISSN 0185-2450.

This contribution revolves around the meaning of the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001 for philosophical hermeneutics, particularly that of Gianni Vattimo. The Torinese has devised in his texts between 2006 and 2014 a new version of hermeneutics based on the experience of this event. This new hermeneutics would be attentive to the conflict and the social transformations and would have at its core the notion of “event”. Vattimo himself, however, does not offer an adequate operational definition of the term. Thus, I propose to incorporate into the hermeneutic tradition concepts like “event” and “miracle”, coined by Joseph de Maistre. It is a proposal of “maistrenization” of hermeneutics in order to make it a plausible and fruitful discourse in a violent and unstable world.

Keywords : nihilistic hermeneutics; social violence; ontology of the event; maistrian miracle; political hermeneutics.