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Understanding Hermeneutics (Paperback)
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Understanding Hermeneutics (Paperback)
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This series provides short, accessible and lively introduction to
the major schools, movements and traditions in philosophy and the
history of ideas since the beginning of the Enlightenment. All
books in the series are written for undergraduates meeting the
subject for the first time. Hermeneutics concerns itself with the
theory of understanding and the interpretation of language. The
question of how to correctly interpret and understand others
remains one of the most contested branches of philosophy. In
Understanding Hermeneutics Lawrence Schmidt provides an
introduction to modern hermeneutics through a systematic
examination of the ideas of its key philosophical proponents.
Chapter 1 examines the ideas, of the Protestant theologian,
Friedrich Schleiermacher, who argues that misunderstanding is
always possible so we must always employ interpretation if we are
to understnad correctly. Chapter 2 discusses the ideas of Dilthey,
who maintains that understanding in the humanities is fundamentally
different from explanation in the natural sciences, and who
presents a methodology to judge what another person means or feels
by means of their language and also their gestures, facial
expressions, and manners of acting. Chapter 3 explores the ideas of
Heidegger who radicalizes the concept by shifting its focus from
interpreting texts to an existential interpretation of human being.
In Chapter 4 the recent ideas of Gadamer are examined, which extend
to examining the structures of hermeneutic experience and to
question the supremacy of the natural sciences as models for truth.
The final chapters consider some of the criticisms and
controversies surrounding hermeneutics, including the work of
Habermas, Hirsch, Ricoeur and Derrida, and the prospects for the
future of hermeneutics.
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