Being-towards-the-text (Gadamer and Derrida in misunderstanding)
This paper deals with Gadamer-Derrida encounter during the “Hermeneutics and 
 Deconstruction” conference (1981). Taking into account the scale of mutual 
 misunderstanding expressed on that occasion, many commentators suggested that 
 it was an improbable debate, or even the non-dialogue. But, beneath the 
 disappointing surface, Gadamer-Derrida encounter revealed complexity of 
 relations between hermeneutics and deconstruction, which involve the great 
 range of exceptional topics, influencing the main streams of twentieth 
 century philosophy. In the first part I am analyzing philosophical and 
 institutional framework of their encounter, then I am examining Gadamer’s 
 conference paper, while the last part is concerned with debate itself.