Hermeneutics



: Meretoja Hanna

: Stocker Barry, Mack Michael

: 2018

: Palgrave Handbook of Philosophy and Literature

: 341

: 364

: 978-1-137-54793-4

: 978-1-137-54794-1


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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