hermeneutics

• “The term hermeneutics, a Latinized version of the Greek hermeneutice, has been part of common language from the beginning of the 17th century.”

  Hermeneutics

• “Possessed by madness and in hermeneutics overdrive, he will decipher this bit of the built environment.”

  Dan Brown's Campidoglio

• “This is what fancy theorists call a hermeneutics of belief.”

  The least worst form of Government…

• “It spends a great deal of its time fretting about interpretation, or what it prefers to call hermeneutics, as in Hermes, the most elusive of the Greek gods, the very icon of instability and movement, of zooming out of focus and into enigmatic strangeness, with riddling messages under his wing.”

  Simon & Schuster: BREAKFAST WITH SOCRATES

• “One the one hand, Gadamer stalwartly defends the autonomy of the art work and, on the other, despite his resistance to any subsumption of art within philosophy, he insists nevertheless that aesthetics should be absorbed within hermeneutics, which is for the most part understood as a theoretical enterprise.”

  Gadamer's Aesthetics

• “In paranoid schizophrenia, for example, patients tend to interpret what other people say with what might be called a hermeneutics of fear and suspicion, and in extreme cases, will have elaborate and fixed fantastic theories about ways in which others are aiming to harm them.”

  Mental Illness

• “Meier's contribution to hermeneutics is to argue for the interdependence of hermeneutics and language, introducing a semantic holism in which linguistic obscurities are detangled by reference to language itself, not by reference to extra-linguistic elements such as the intention of the author.”

  Hermeneutics

• “Marxist critics often practice what is known as the hermeneutics of suspicion - that is, they question the motives of authors and seek to explain why some would ever choose to support capitalism.”

  Mises Institute Daily Articles (Full-text version)

• “The aforementioned volume, consequently, criticizes the conciliar "hermeneutics" of men who are certainly not "closed" toward Vatican II or opposed to it, such as Jedin, Kasper, Ratzinger, and Poulat himself.”

  A Timely Re-Read on a Critique of a Particular, and Popular, Hermeneutic of Vatican II

• “Otherwise, I wonder if mind-wrought signs and symbols don't require a different kind of hermeneutics than the signs of natural phenomena.”

  AKMA’s Random Thoughts

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