A3 Refereed book chapter or chapter in a compilation book
Hermeneutics
Authors: Meretoja Hanna
Editors: Stocker Barry, Mack Michael
Publication year: 2018
Book title : Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Literature
First page : 341
Last page: 364
ISBN: 978-1-137-54793-4
eISBN: 978-1-137-54794-1
Abstract
Hermeneutics
is a field of inquiry that explores the phenomenon of interpretation.
This chapter provides an overview of some of
the main approaches to hermeneutics – as a philosophy of interpretation
and of literature and literary studies. After first presenting briefly
the main ideas of Friedrich Schleiermacher and Wilhelm Dilthey, the
chapter focuses on Gadamerian philosophical hermeneutics
and its view of understanding as profoundly historical and dialogical.
The chapter shows how hermeneutics allows us to approach literature not
only as an object of interpretation but as an interpretative practice in
its own right. The chapter ends with a glance
at some of the challenges that hermeneutics currently faces and with a
brief discussion of how contemporary narrative hermeneutics explores
narrative as a culturally mediated interpretative practice.
Hermeneutics
is a field of inquiry that explores the phenomenon of interpretation.
This chapter provides an overview of some of
the main approaches to hermeneutics – as a philosophy of interpretation
and of literature and literary studies. After first presenting briefly
the main ideas of Friedrich Schleiermacher and Wilhelm Dilthey, the
chapter focuses on Gadamerian philosophical hermeneutics
and its view of understanding as profoundly historical and dialogical.
The chapter shows how hermeneutics allows us to approach literature not
only as an object of interpretation but as an interpretative practice in
its own right. The chapter ends with a glance
at some of the challenges that hermeneutics currently faces and with a
brief discussion of how contemporary narrative hermeneutics explores
narrative as a culturally mediated interpretative practice.
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