Hermeneutics, ancient and modern
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.
Print Book, English, cop. 1992
Yale University Press, New Haven, cop. 1992
xii, 318 p. ; 24 cm.
9780300063035, 9780300054507, 0300063032, 0300054505
912467279
Preface Introduction: What is Hermeneutics About? Part One. The Ancients Chapter 1. Truth and Power in the Discourse of Socrates Chapter 2. Thucydides, Plato, and the Historicality of Truth Chapter 3. Canon and Power in the Hebrew Bible Chapter 4. Allegory as Radical Interpretation Chapter 5. Hermeneutics of Midrash Chapter 6. Suffiya: The Mystical Hermeneutics of Al-Ghazali Part Two. The Modems Chapter 7. Scripture sui ipsius interpres: Luther, Modernity, and the Foundations of Philosophical Hermeneutics Chapter 8. Wordsworth at the Limits of Romantic Hennencutics Chapter 9. On the Tragedy of Hermeneutical Experience Chapter 10. What is Tradition? Chapter I 1. On the Radical Turn in Hermeneutics Chapter 12. Against Poetry: Heidegger, Ricocur, and the Originary Scene of Hermeneutics Conclusion: Towards a Hermeneutics of Freedom.