Abstract

Arguing about J.C. Dannhauer’s antithesis interpretatio/calumnia, the opposition hermeneutics focuses the interplay between textualization and closure. Every act of interpretation constitutes the intepretandum as an object. The closure of the interpreted text opens the way to multiple readings. The objectivity made by interpretation fulfills the fundamental quality of normativity: Ought as uprising against Being. Moving from the textual closure, legal hermeneutics translates in the social communication’s sphere what legal normativity has imposed as untranslatable. Ends up in a valid norm or not, any act of interpretation has propositional efficiency. The task of a renewed democratic hermeneutics is to safeguard the dignity of the defeated interpretation in the hermeneutic arena.