Hermeneutics, ancient and modern
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Hermeneutics, ancient and modern
Yale University Press, c1992
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-310) and index
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In this 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 beginning of writing. What does it mean to understand a riddle, an action, a concept, a law, an alien culture, or oneself? Bruns sets out to expand our sense of the horizons of hermeneutics by situating its basic questions against a background of different cultural traditions and philosophical topics. He discusses, for example, the interpretation of oracles, the silencing of the muses and the writing of history, the quarrel between philosophy and poetry, the canonization of sacred texts, the nature of allegorical exegesis, Rabbinical midrash, the mystical exegesis of the Qur'an, the rise of literalism and the individual interpreter, and the nature of Romantic hermaneutics.
Dealing with thinkers ranging from Socrates to Luther to Wordsworth to Ricoeur, Bruns also ponders several basic dilemmas about the nature of hermeneutical experience, the meaning of tradition, the hermeneutical function of narrative and the conflict between truth and freedom in philosophy and literature.
Table of Contents
Preface Introduction: What is Hermeneutics About? Part One. The Ancients Chapter 1. Truth and Power in the Discourse of Socrates Chapter 2. Thucydides, Plato, and the Historicality of Truth Chapter 3. Canon and Power in the Hebrew Bible Chapter 4. Allegory as Radical Interpretation Chapter 5. Hermeneutics of Midrash Chapter 6. Suffiya: The Mystical Hermeneutics of Al-Ghazali Part Two. The Modems Chapter 7. Scripture sui ipsius interpres: Luther, Modernity, and the Foundations of Philosophical Hermeneutics Chapter 8. Wordsworth at the Limits of Romantic Hennencutics Chapter 9. On the Tragedy of Hermeneutical Experience Chapter 10. What is Tradition? Chapter I 1. On the Radical Turn in Hermeneutics Chapter 12. Against Poetry: Heidegger, Ricocur, and the Originary Scene of Hermeneutics Conclusion: Towards a Hermeneutics of Freedom.
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