Schleiermacher: Hermeneutics and Criticism

(Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)

Format Paperback | 328 pages

Dimensions 156 x 230 x 32mm | 598.74g

Publication date 28 Dec 1998

Publisher CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Language English

ISBN10 0521598486

ISBN13 9780521598484

內容簡介

The founding text of modern hermeneutics. Written by the philosopher and theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher as a method for the interpretation and textual criticism of the New Testament, it develops ideas about language and the interpretation of texts that are in many respects still unsurpassed and are becoming current in the contemporary philosophy of language. Contrary to the traditional view of Schleiermacher as a theorist of empathetic interpretation, in this text he offers a view of understanding that acknowledges both the structurally and historically determined aspects of language and the need to take account of the activity of the individual subject in the constitution of meaning.

This volume offers the text in a new translation by Andrew Bowie, together with related writings on secular hermeneutics and on language, and an introduction that places the texts in the context of Schleiermacher's philosophy as a whole.