Hermeneutics Ancient and Modern

Name: Hermeneutics Ancient and Modern
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ISBN: 9780300063035

ISBN-10: 0300063032

ISBN-13: 9780300063035

Edition: 1992

Authors: Gerald L. Bruns

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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.

Book details

List price: $33.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 3/20/1995
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 332
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.98" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



Preface


Introduction: What Is Hermeneutics About?



The Ancients



Truth and Power in the Discourse of Socrates



Thucydides, Plato, and the Historicality of Truth



Canon and Power in the Hebrew Bible



Allegory as Radical Interpretation



The Hermeneutics of Midrash



Sufiyya: The Mystical Hermeneutics of al-Ghazali



The Moderns



Scriptura sui ipsius interpres: Luther, Modernity, and the Foundations of Philosophical Hermeneutics



Wordsworth at the Limits of Romantic Hermeneutics



On the Tragedy of Hermeneutical Experience



What Is Tradition?



On the Radical Turn in Hermeneutics



Against Poetry: Heidegger, Ricoeur, and the Originary Scene of Hermeneutics


Conclusion: Toward a Hermeneutics of Freedom


Notes


Index