https://e-sygoing.link Latest links in the Hermeneutics category en-us Sun, 24 May 2026 09:16:14 -0400 https://e-sygoing.link/link/7780848-transgressing-the-boundaries-towards-a-transformative-hermen Essay by physicist, Alan Sokal, teasing philosophical implications from quantum mechanics, with a view to accommodating some feminist and poststructuralist critiques of the ideology of domination perceived to be inherent in the discourse of much of the scientific community. Fri, 27 Feb 2026 22:19:22 -0500 https://e-sygoing.link/go/7780848 https://e-sygoing.link/link/7780855-paul-ricoeur-and-the-hermeneutics-of-suspiciona-brief-overvi Hermeneutics is both science and art. In many ways this beguilingly simple statement is responsible for the modern ferment in hermeneutics - a process begun with F. Schleiermacher (1768-1834) and his attempt to gain meaning through understanding the mind of the author; given significant impetus more recently in the seminal work of Hans-Georg Gadamer and his call for a dialectic between the horizons of the text and reader; and radicalized in the increasingly reader-response oriented hermeneutics of today. Ricoeur's hermeneutic of suspicion represents his attempt to retain both science and art, whilst disallowing either an absolute status. Thu, 10 Apr 2025 03:03:15 -0400 https://e-sygoing.link/go/7780855 https://e-sygoing.link/link/7780837-foundationalism-and-hermeneutics Site about the interaction of hermeneutics and foundationalism. The interaction of hermeneutics and foundationalism is the same as the interaction of interpretation and reality. Our connection to reality may underdetermine the interpretation, leaving a range of possibilities, but it does impose a limit to interpretation, determining a certain range. What hermeneutics and foundationalism really represent, however, is something logically more precise. Hermeneutics is about interpretation, which is about meaning, which is about what is understood. Foundationalism is about reality, which is about truth, which is about what is known. Wed, 29 Jan 2025 02:41:38 -0500 https://e-sygoing.link/go/7780837 https://e-sygoing.link/link/7780846-dialogue-and-conversation-the-contribution-of-gadamer-haberm Article from The Encyclopedia of Informal Education exploring the related notions of dialogue and conversation in the thinking of Hans-Georg Gadamer, Paulo Freire, Jürgen Habermas, and David Bohm. Mon, 07 Oct 2024 06:11:22 -0400 https://e-sygoing.link/go/7780846 https://e-sygoing.link/link/7780847-some-principles-of-phenomenological-hermeneutics An essay offering a brief overview of hermeneutics designed for students of literary theory. Sun, 22 Sep 2024 05:47:26 -0400 https://e-sygoing.link/go/7780847