Hermeneutics : interpretation theory in Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger, and Gadamer
This book could have been called What Is Hermeneutics? or The Meaning of Hermeneutics, for it is, among other things, a record of its author's own quest for an understanding of a term at once unfamiliar to most educated people and at the same time potentially significant to a number of disciplines concerned with interpretation, especially text interpretation. This study arose out of a more specific project concerning the significance of Bultmannian theory of biblical interpetation for literary theory, during which the need for some fundamental clarification of the development, meaning, and scope of hermeneutics itself became evident. The richly suggestive possibilities of general, nontheological hermeneutics (which actually is the basis for Bultmannian theory and that of the "new hermeneutic") led me to focus solely on the pretheological form of hermeneutics as it relates to theory of literary interpretation. - Preface
Print Book, English, 1969
Northwestern University Press, Evanston [Ill.], 1969
xviii, 283 pages ; 24 cm
9780810104594, 9780810100275, 0810104598, 0810100274
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Part 1. On the definition, scope, and significance of hermeneutics ; Introduction ; Hermeneuein and Hermeneia: the modern significance of their ancient usage ; Six modern definitions of Hermeneutics ; The contemporary battle over hermeneutics: Betti versus Gadamer ; The meaning and scope of hermeneutics
Part 2. Four major theorists ; Two forerunners of Schleiermacher ; Schleiermacher's project of a general hermeneutics ; Dilthey: hermeneutics as foundation of the Geisteswissenschaften ; Heidegger's contribution to hermeneutics in Being and Time ; Heidegger's later contribution to hermeneutical theory ; Gadamer's critique of modern aesthetic and historical consciousness ; Gadamer's dialectical hermeneutics
Part 3. A hermeneutical manifesto to American literary interpretation ; Toward reopening the question: what is interpretation ; Thirty theses on interpretation