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Schleiermacher: Hermeneutics and Criticism

And Other Writings

Friedrich Schleiermacher author Andrew Bowie editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:26th Nov '98

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A new translation and edition of the founding text of modern hermeneutics.

This volume offers a new translation of the founding text of modern hermeneutics, together with related writings on secular hermeneutics and on language, and an introduction that places the texts in the context of Schleiermacher's philosophy as a whole.The founding text of modern hermeneutics. Written by the philosopher and theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher as a method for the interpretation and textual criticism of the New Testament, it develops ideas about language and the interpretation of texts that are in many respects still unsurpassed and are becoming current in the contemporary philosophy of language. Contrary to the traditional view of Schleiermacher as a theorist of empathetic interpretation, in this text he offers a view of understanding that acknowledges both the structurally and historically determined aspects of language and the need to take account of the activity of the individual subject in the constitution of meaning. This volume offers the text in a new translation by Andrew Bowie, together with related writings on secular hermeneutics and on language, and an introduction that places the texts in the context of Schleiermacher's philosophy as a whole.

"This is a most welcome and much needed edition..." Religious Studies Review

ISBN: 9780521598484

Dimensions: 227mm x 154mm x 20mm

Weight: 533g

328 pages