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" . . . the 'art of interpretation'."
"Modern hermeneutics falls into three phases.
1. Friedrich Schleiermacher (1768-1834): . . . The interpreter's aim is to 'understand the text at first as well as and then even better than its author' . . . A text is interpreted from two points of view: 'grammatical' . . . and 'psychological' . . . ' . . . we cannot fully understand the parts unless we understand the whole. Thus at each level we are involved in a hermeneutical circle, a continual reciprocity between whole and parts . . .
2. Schleiermacher's biographer, Dilthey, extended hermeneutics to the understanding of all human behaviour and products. Our understanding of an author, artist, or historical agent is not direct, but by way of analogies to our own experience. . . . concerned with understanding in the cultural, in contrast to the natural, sciences, and . . . with the interpretation of the products of past societies.
3. Heidegger: In [his] Being and Time, hermeneutics acquires a deeper and wider sense. It is concerned with the interpretation of the being who interprets texts and other artefacts, who may become, but is not essentially, either a natural or a cultural scientist . . . His hermeneutics differs from Derrida's: for Heidegger, words 'show' something beyond themselves, namely being, and we need to think about this, not simply about the text, in order to understand what is said." ... [more]
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