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 predate the beginning of writing. Bruns situates the basic questions of hermeneutics against a background of different cultural traditions and philosophical topics, discussing for example, the interpretation of oracles, the quarrel between philosophy and poetry, Rabbinical midrash, and the nature of Romantic hermeneutics. Zusammenfassung In this meditation on the nature and purpose of hermeneutics, Gerald Bruns argues that hermeneutics is not just a contemporary theory. It is an extended family of questions about understanding and interpretation that have multiple and conflicting histories from before the beginning of writing.

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• Authors: Gerald L. Bruns
• Publisher: Yale University Press Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 20.03.1995
• EAN: 9780300063035
• ISBN: 978-0-300-06303-5
• No. of pages: 334
• Series: Yale Studies in Hermeneutics; Yale Studies in Hermeneutics
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies