Truth and Method/I.2.2D Reconstruction and integration as hermeneutic tasks

Noting, 'the historicity of our being'...

Reconstructing the original circumstances, like all restoration, is a futile undertaking in view of the historicity of our being. What is reconstructed, a life brought back from the lost past, is not the original. In its continuance in an estranged state it acquires only a derivative, cultural existence

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We cannot escape this effect of time. An interview may be captured in a recording but the recording is not the interview. A precise transcript of the interview, taken verbatim from the recording is not the interview.