Hermeneutics

Hermeneutics (/hɜːrməˈnjuːtɪks/)^[1] is the theory and methodology of interpretation,^[2]^[3] especially the interpretation of biblical texts, wisdom literature, and philosophical texts.^[4]^[5] As necessary, hermeneutics may include the art of understanding and communication.^[6]

"Philosophical hermeneutics" redirects here. For other uses, see Hermeneutics (disambiguation). For the history of hermeneutics, see History of hermeneutics.

Modern hermeneutics includes both verbal and non-verbal communication,^[7]^[8] as well as semiotics, presuppositions, and pre-understandings. Hermeneutics has been broadly applied in the humanities, especially in law, history and theology.

Hermeneutics was initially applied to the interpretation, or exegesis, of scripture, and has been later broadened to questions of general interpretation.^[9] The terms hermeneutics and exegesis are sometimes used interchangeably. Hermeneutics is a wider discipline which includes written, verbal, and nonverbal^[7]^[8] communication. Exegesis focuses primarily upon the word and grammar of texts.

Hermeneutic, as a count noun in the singular, refers to some particular method of interpretation (see, in contrast, double hermeneutic).

Experience means to feel a situation or thing personally. Dilthey suggested that we can always grasp the meaning of unknown thought when we try to experience it. His understanding of experience is very similar to that of Edmund Husserl.

phenomenologist

Expression converts experience into meaning because the discourse has an appeal to someone outside of oneself. Every saying is an expression. Dilthey suggested that one can always return to an expression, especially to its written form, and this practice has the same objective value as an experiment in science. The possibility of returning makes scientific analysis possible, and therefore the humanities may be labeled as science. Moreover, he assumed that an expression may be "saying" more than the speaker intends because the expression brings forward meanings which the individual consciousness may not fully understand.

The last structural level of the science of the mind, according to Dilthey, is comprehension, which is a level that contains both comprehension and incomprehension. Incomprehension means, more or less, wrong understanding. He assumed that comprehension produces coexistence: "he who understands, understands others; he who does not understand stays alone."

Criticism[edit]

Jürgen Habermas criticizes Gadamer's hermeneutics as being unsuitable for understanding society because it is unable to account for questions of social reality, like labor and domination.^[87]

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Johann August Ernesti

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Johann Gottfried Herder

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Friedrich August Wolf

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Georg Anton Friedrich Ast

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Aristotle

Clingerman, F. and B. Treanor, M. Drenthen, D. Ustler (2013), Interpreting Nature: The Emerging Field of Environmental Hermeneutics, New York: Fordham University Press.

"Reading the Bible from the Margins," Orbis Books, 2002.

De La Torre, Miguel A.

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Fellmann, Ferdinand

Forster, Michael N., After Herder: Philosophy of Language in the German Tradition, Oxford University Press, 2010.

Ginev, Dimitri, Essays in the Hermeneutics of Science, Routledge, 2018.

Khan, Ali, .

"The Hermeneutics of Sexual Order"

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Köchler, Hans

Köchler, Hans, "Philosophical Foundations of Civilizational Dialogue: The Hermeneutics of Cultural Self-comprehension versus the Paradigm of Civilizational Conflict." International Seminar on Civilizational Dialogue (3rd: 15–17 September 1997: Kuala Lumpur), BP171.5 ISCD. Kertas kerja persidangan / conference papers. Kuala Lumpur: University of Malaya Library, 1997.

Mantzavinos, C. Naturalistic Hermeneutics, Cambridge University Press, 2005. 978-0-521-84812-1.

ISBN

Oevermann, U. et al. (1987): "Structures of meaning and objective Hermeneutics." In: Meha, V. et al. (eds.). Modern German Sociology. European Perspectives: a Series in Social Thought and Cultural Ctiticism. New York: Columbia University Press, pp. 436–447.

Olesen, Henning Salling, ed. (2013): "Cultural Analysis and In-Depth Hermeneutics." , Focus, 38, no. 2, pp. 7–157.

Historical Social Research

Przyłębski, Andrzej. Ethics in the Light of Hermeneutical Philosophy, LIT Verlag, Zurich 2017.

Przyłębski, Andrzej. The Value of Motherland: An Introduction to a Hermeneutic Philosophy of Politics, LIT Verlag, Zurich 2022.

. Hermeneutics between Philosophy and Theology: The Imperative to Think the Incommensurable, Germany, Münster: LIT Verlag, 2010.

Wierciński, Andrzej

Archived 4 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine written by Uwe Wirth.

Abductive Inference and Literary theory – Pragmatism, Hermeneutics and Semiotics

– International peer-reviewed journal.

Meta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy

provided by the Association for Objective Hermeneutics.

Objective Hermeneutics Bibliographic Database

de Berg, Henk: (2015)

Gadamer's Hermeneutics: An Introduction

de Berg, Henk: (2015)

Ricoeur's Hermeneutics: An Introduction

"The Liminality of Hermes and the Meaning of Hermeneutics"

Palmer, Richard E.

Palmer, Richard E., "The Relevance of Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics to Thirty-Six Topics or Fields of Human Activity", Lecture Delivered at the Department of Philosophy, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL, 1 April 1999, .

Eprint

Ion, Paul Woodruff (trans.) in Plato, Complete Works, ed. John M. Cooper. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, 1997, pp. 937–949.

Plato

Quintana Paz, Miguel Ángel, , a paper on the relevance of Gadamer's Hermeneutics for our understanding of Music, Ethics and our Education in both.

"On Hermeneutical Ethics and Education"

Szesnat, Holger, "Philosophical Hermeneutics", .