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Romanticism, Hermeneutics and the Crisis of the Human Sciences (Hardcover)
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Romanticism, Hermeneutics and the Crisis of the Human Sciences (Hardcover)
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The human sciences established and developed in the nineteenth
century have slowly disintegrated. It is an ironic end. It was in
the name of the greater legitimacy of more universal psychological
criteria that its architects disavowed the traditional theological
standard for valuing and evaluating human words and deeds. With
hindsight, we can see that universality was indeed gained, but only
at the cost of alienating any sense of common legitimacy. Harold
Bloom, defending the canon largely in the humanising, 'moral sense'
convention of critics operating since Matthew Arnold, has
resolutely maintained the common legitimacy of aesthetic value
against the claims of particular interest groups. But the very
universality attached to aesthetic value is at odds with the world
of common sense, and thus lies at the root of the problem. To
complicate matters, this universality has been understood as a
traditional criterion. A more radical treatment of the subject is
needed. This study begins by surveying the field of modern
hermeneutics. Noting its repeated crises of self-legitimisation, it
traces these to circular beliefs bequeathed by Romanticism that
human nature is self-begetting, and can thus be known intimately
and autonomously. After providing a historical overview of how
human nature had been understood, the focus shifts to the attack in
Coleridge's Biographia Literaria on Wordsworth's 1802 Preface to
Lyrical Ballads, and to a reading of some key Romantic texts. It
reads Coleridge's famous definition of the imagination as an attack
on Romantic hermeneutics, rooted in the traditional view that man
has been created in Imago Dei.
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