El debate sobre Plato und die Dichter y su inscripción en el contexto de Alemania Nacional-Socialista: una discusión con lecturas de la teoría política

Hans-Georg Gadamer, in his conference Plato und die Dichter [1934], executed an exceptional phenomenological investigation of the Plato’s ethical-political philosophy and of the place of art in it. In the mid-1990s, the Mexican author Teresa Orozco published a series of works in which she accused Gadamer of placing himself, through the presentation and publication of Plato und die Dichter, at the service of National Socialism. This article seeks to discuss Orozco’s and others arguments, in the frst place, inquiring about the heterogeneity of its reception between 1934 and 1944, inside and outside of Germany; then, regaining relevant biographical information omitted by their detractors; fnally, offering documentary evidence that would refute the grounds of the aforementioned accusation. Lastly, I will propose a methodological framework to analyze Plato und die Dichter in relation with its historical context. It could show in what sense Plato und die Dichter may have expressed Gadamer's dissidence with the National Socialist hegemony