Hermeneutics. Method and MethodologyThe goal of the investigation is a phenomenological theory of the methods and later the methodology of the human sciences, first of all the philological interpretation of texts. The first part is a critical reflection on the historical development of hermeneutics as method of interpreting texts and the tradition including the first steps toward the emergence of scientific methodological hermeneutics. Such reflections show that the development of hermeneutics is onesidedly founded in the development of hermeneutical consciousness, i.e. the changing attitudes in the application and rejection of cultural traditions. All methods and finally methodologies are onesidedly founded in the activities of the lifeworld. The second part is a first attempt to develop an outline of a general phenomenological theory of pre-methodical and methodical understanding in the lifeworld. The third part offers a critical phenomenologically guided analysis of methodological hermeneutics.
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4 The development of hermeneutical consciousness in the Middle Ages 25 Chapter 2 The Genesis of PhilologicalHistorical Hermeneutics | 34 |
6 Hermeneutics in the age of rationalism and the Enlightenment | 41 |
Methodological Hermeneutics | 55 |
9 Boeckhs critics and Dilthey | 61 |
10 Droysens theory of historical interpretation and critique | 69 |
18 Archaic cultures and archaic intercultural encounters | 140 |
Method and Methodology | 153 |
22 The second canon and its problems | 161 |
23 The first canon and its problems | 167 |
25 The theory of the whole and the parts | 174 |
27 Methodical interpretation and the two abstractive reductions | 183 |
29 Genre interpretation | 196 |
30 Summary and transition | 209 |
11 Archaeological hermeneutics | 85 |
Toward a General Theory of Understanding | 93 |
14 Higher understanding and cultural tradition | 116 |
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17 Texts and speeches | 132 |
31 Preliminary considerations | 218 |
34 Dialogues between correspondents | 227 |
37 Efficient history and the consciousness of efficient history | 237 |
Concluding Remarks | 245 |
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