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Secularism and Hermeneutics (Hardcover)
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Secularism and Hermeneutics (Hardcover)
Series: Intellectual History of the Modern Age
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In the late Enlightenment, a new imperative began to inform
theories of interpretation: all literary texts should be read in
the same way that we read the Bible. However, this assumption
concealed a problem-there was no coherent "we" who read the Bible
in the same way. In Secularism and Hermeneutics, Yael Almog shows
that several prominent thinkers of the era, including Johann
Gottfried Herder, Moses Mendelssohn, Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm
Friedrich Hegel, and Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher,
constituted readers as an imaginary "we" around which they could
form their theories and practices of interpretation. This
conception of interpreters as a universal community, Almog argues,
established biblical readers as a coherent collective. In the first
part of the book, Almog focuses on the 1760s through the 1780s and
examines these writers' works on biblical Hebrew and their reliance
on the conception of the Old Testament as a cultural, rather than
religious, asset. She reveals how the detachment of textual
hermeneutics from confessional affiliation was stimulated by
debates on the integration of Jews in Enlightenment Germany. In
order for the political community to cohere, she contends, certain
religious practices were restricted to the private sphere while
textual interpretation, which previously belonged to religious
contexts, became the foundation of the public sphere. As
interpretive practices were secularized and taken to be universal,
they were meant to overcome religious difference. Turning to
literature and the early nineteenth century in the second part of
the book, Almog demonstrates the ways in which the new literary
genres of realism and lyric poetry disrupted these interpretive
reading practices. Literary techniques such as irony and
intertextuality disturbed the notion of a stable, universal
reader's position and highlighted interpretation as grounded in
religious belonging. Secularism and Hermeneutics reveals the
tension between textual exegesis and confessional belonging and
challenges the modern presumption that interpretation is
indifferent to religious concerns.
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