Hannah Arendt’s Philosophical Hermeneutics; In Accordance with The Interpretative Approch of Heidegger and Gadamer

If we consider the understanding of human affairs, politics and community, with existentialist approach, as the foundation of Arendt’s philosophical and political thinking, so this paper tries to understand the meaning of understanding in Arendt’s thought and its relation to her philosophical hermeneutics. In this regard, we consider her interpretative approach in the text of tradition of hermeneutics, especially in Heidegger’s and Gadamer’s hermeneutics. The most similarities of Arendt, Heidegger and Gadamer about understanding, are their Emphasize on the uniqueness, newness and beginning every human being. They, also criticize essentialism, reductionism, scientism and historicism and emphasizing the importance of pre-assumptions in understanding. In their belief, understanding is circular, situated and worldly. Of course the most important similarity between their hermeneutics, is the will to deal with phenomenon. Above all, story-telling, showing the researcher as a unbiasesd viewer, use of differentiation and discrimination, functioning of paradoxes and analyzing them to achieve the understanding, and also use of taste and imagination, all are the special characteristics of Arendt’s phenomenological hermeneutics.