Abstract

Insofar as the references to the concept atopon within the work of Hans-Georg Gadamer are rare, this obscurity contrasts with the significance Gadamer attributes to the term: it may be read as a phenomenon upon which philosophical hermeneutics is contingent. Our text offers a reading of atopon as it is developed in Gadamer’s text “Rhetorik, Hermeneutik und Ideologiekritik”. The schema proposed by Gadamer is a transitory series where atopon serves as the grounding phenomenon giving a potential rhetorical or hermeneutical linguisticality. This schema thusly yields a rudimentary image of possible accounts of atopon and serves as an aperture towards a further development of the concept