Hermeneutics: A Very Short Introduction

Hermeneutics: A Very Short Introduction

Author: Jens Zimmermann

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2015-10-22

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 0191508535

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Hermeneutics is the branch of knowledge that deals with interpretation, a behaviour that is intrinsic to our daily lives. As humans, we decipher the meaning of newspaper articles, books, legal matters, religious texts, political speeches, emails, and even dinner conversations every day . But how is knowledge mediated through these forms? What constitutes the process of interpretation? And how do we draw meaning from the world around us so that we might understand our position in it? In this Very Short Introduction Jens Zimmermann traces the history of hermeneutic theory, setting out its key elements, and demonstrating how they can be applied to a broad range of disciplines: theology; literature; law; and natural and social sciences. Demonstrating the longstanding and wide-ranging necessity of interpretation, Zimmermann reveals its significance in our current social and political landscape. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.


Schleiermacher: Lectures on Philosophical Ethics

Schleiermacher: Lectures on Philosophical Ethics

Author: Friedrich Schleiermacher

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2002-11-21

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780521007672

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This 2002 book was the first English translation of Schleiermacher's lectures on philosophical ethics, with a philosophical introduction.


The Cambridge Companion to Hermeneutics

The Cambridge Companion to Hermeneutics

Author: Michael N. Forster

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-01-03

Total Pages: 435

ISBN-13: 1107187605

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Explores the relevance of hermeneutics for modern human sciences, its history and development, and its key philosophical debates.


On Religion

On Religion

Author: Friedrich Schleiermacher

Publisher: CCEL

Published: 1893

Total Pages: 325

ISBN-13: 1610251970

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The Veiled God

The Veiled God

Author: Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2019-07-22

Total Pages: 311

ISBN-13: 9004397825

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In The Veiled God, Ruth Jackson Ravenscroft offers a detailed portrait of Friedrich Schleiermacher’s early life, ethics, and theology in its historical and social context. She also critically reflects on the enduring relevance of his work for the study of religion. The book analyses major texts from Schleiermacher’s early work. It argues that his experiments with literary form convey his understanding that human knowledge is inherently social, and that religion is thoroughly linguistic and historical. The book contends that by making finitude (and not freedom) a universal aspect to human life, Schleiermacher offers rich conceptual resources for considering what it means to be human in this world, both in relations of difference to others, and in relation to the infinite.


Literary Hermeneutics

Literary Hermeneutics

Author: Tomasz Kalaga

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Published: 2015-06-18

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 1443879304

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This book analyses the most significant aspects of the evolutionary process which occurred in literary hermeneutics: the shift from interpretation perceived as a methodology of reading to the ontological function of exegesis. Through the discussion of the theories of Friedrich Schleiermacher, Eric Donald Hirsch, Hans-Georg Gadamer and Paul Ricoeur, it focuses on the metamorphosis of the concepts of meaning, interpretation and validity, and demonstrates how the correlative changes in the essence and functions of these three elements transformed the art of understanding from being a methodological discipline to an ontological instrument for a re-description of the interpreter’s self. The book highlights the development of those aspects of hermeneutic thought which are of particular significance in the contemporary debate over validity and criteria of interpretation. The vision of hermeneutics proposed here contradicts the supposedly anachronistic character of the art of understanding, and, through a permanent departure from essentialist views and categories, enables it to enter into a discussion with such literary orientations as neo-pragmatism and reader-response theory.


The Blackwell Companion to Hermeneutics

The Blackwell Companion to Hermeneutics

Author: Niall Keane

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2016-01-19

Total Pages: 644

ISBN-13: 1118529634

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A Companion to Hermeneutics is a collection of original essays from leading international scholars that provide a definitive historical and critical compendium of philosophical hermeneutics. Offers a definitive historical, systematic, and critical compendium of hermeneutics Represents state-of-the-art thinking on the major themes, topics, concepts and figures of the hermeneutic tradition in philosophy and those who have influenced hermeneutic thought, including Kant, Hegel, Schleiermacher Dilthey, Heidegger, Gadamer, Ricoeur, Foucault, Habermas, and Rorty Explores the art and theory of interpretation as it intersects with a number of philosophical and inter-disciplinary areas, including humanism, theology, literature, politics, education and law Features contributions from an international cast of leading and upcoming scholars, who offer historically informed, philosophically comprehensive, and critically astute contributions in their individual fields of expertise Written to be accessible to interested non-specialists, as well asprofessional philosophers


Brief Outline of Theology as a Field of Study

Brief Outline of Theology as a Field of Study

Author: Friedrich Schleiermacher

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press

Published: 2011-01-01

Total Pages: 215

ISBN-13: 0664234062

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Originally published: Lewiston, N.Y.: E. Mellen Press, c1990, in series: Schleiermacher studies and translations; v. 1.


Gadamer and the Legacy of German Idealism

Gadamer and the Legacy of German Idealism

Author: Kristin Gjesdal

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2012-05-10

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1107404339

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This study provides an illuminating assessment of both the merits and the limitations of Hans-Georg Gadamer's philosophical thought. Kristin Gjesdal uses a close analysis and critical investigation of Gadamer's Truth and Method (1960) to show that his engagement with Kant, Hegel, and Schleiermacher is integral to his conception of hermeneutics.