ABSTRACT
Traditionally, hermeneutic has been tragic in condition and orientation. It depends on the notion that texts are obscure, with secret topoi in the dark tropics of their discourse, demanding epistemological sleuths for their illumination or demystification. Ricœur writes, for instance, that:
on the one hand, hermeneutics is thought of as the manifestation and the restoration of a meaning which is addressed to me in the manner of a message, a proclamation or, as it is sometimes called, a kerygma; on the other hand, it is conceived as a demystification, or a reduction of illusions.1
