Abstract: This essay investigates the reading of Friedrich Schleiermacher’s hermeneutics which Hans Georg Gadamer offers in Truth and Method (1960) and which will have a lasting influence on Schleiermacher’s reception in the 20th century: it aims to show how paradoxical such a reading appears, since it worked as a ground stone for establishing hermeneutics as a philosophical area of its own right, but it rests on an equivocate reading of the German philosopher’s thought.
