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Hermeneutics Ancient and Modern (Paperback, New Ed)
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Hermeneutics Ancient and Modern (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: Yale Studies in Hermeneutics
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In this wide-ranging meditation on the nature and purpose of
hermeneutics, Gerald L. Bruns argues that hermeneutics is not
merely a contemporary theory but an extended family of questions
about understanding and interpretation that have multiple and
conflicting histories going back to before the beginning of
writing. What does it mean to understand a riddle, an action, a
concept, a law, an alien culture, or oneself? Bruns expands our
sense of the horizons of hermeneutics by situating its basic
questions against a background of different cultural traditions and
philosophical topics. He discusses, for example, the interpretation
of oracles, the silencing of the muses and the writing of history,
the quarrel between philosophy and poetry, the canonization of
sacred texts, the nature of allegorical exegesis, rabbinical
midrash, the mystical exegesis of the Qur'an, the rise of
literalism and the individual interpreter, and the nature of
Romantic hermeneutics. Dealing with thinkers ranging from Socrates
to Luther to Wordsworth to Ricoeur, Bruns also ponders several
basic dilemmas about the nature of hermeneutical experience, the
meaning of tradition, the hermeneutical function of narrative, and
the conflict between truth and freedom in philosophy and
literature. His eloquent book demonstrates the continuing power of
hermeneutical thinking to open up questions about the world and our
place in it.
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