Experiência e negatividade em Gadamer

The article aims to analyze Gadamer’s notion of hermeneutic experience as a negative experience. Such exposition will allow us to criticize two common readings: on the one hand, that hermeneutic experience doesn’t take the form of a positive and optimistic experience, as many would like to assume; on the other hand, that by means of such negativity the interpreter establishes a break of identification with tradition, so that the relation to tradition doesn’t imply blind submission to it, but a relation mediated by distance.