La necessità ermeneutico-filosofica della ripetizione

The first aim of this essay is to highlight the hermeneutic-philosophical meaning of necessity, interpretation and repetition in their mutual intertwining. The second aim is to draw attention to some figures of repetition: as a nostalgic return (Jankélévitch), as an interpretive resumption (Heidegger), as a lived experience of repetition (Kierkegaard), as a retractatio (Samonà), as a repetition of the different (Deleuze). The third aim is to underscore three basic theses: (1) it is our historical-temporal existential constitution that renders necessary hermeneutic repetition; (2) this repetition is the opening of possibilities to the future; (3) human existence is a motion which is not a tool to reach a goal: that is precisely what makes life full of intensity.