Hermeneutics, ancient and modern /

In this wide-ranging meditation on the nature and purpose of hermeneutics, Gerald L. Bruns argues that hermeneutics is not merely a contemporary theory but an extended family of questions about understanding and interpretation that have multiple and conflicting histories going back to before the beg...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bruns, Gerald L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven : Yale University Press, ©1992.
Series:Yale studies in hermeneutics.
Subjects:
Hermeneutics > History.
Herméneutique > Histoire.
LITERARY CRITICISM > General.
Hermeneutics.
Geschichte
Hermeneutik
Hermeneutiek.
Culturele aspecten.
Hermenêutica (história)
Hermeneutik.
Geschichte.
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • What is hermeneutics about?
  • Truth and power in the discourse of Socrates
  • Thucydides, Plato, and the historicality of truth
  • Canon and power in the Hebrew Bible
  • Allegory as radical interpretation
  • The hermeneutics of Midrash
  • Ṣūfīyya : the mystical hermeneutics of al-Ghazālī
  • Scriptura sui ipsius interpres : Luther, modernity, and the foundations of philosophical hermeneutics
  • Wordsworth at the limits of Romantic hermeneutics
  • On the tragedy of hermeneutical experience
  • What is tradition?
  • On the radical turn in hermeneutics
  • Against poetry : Heidegger, Ricoeur, and the originary scene of hermeneutics
  • Toward a hermeneutics of freedom.

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