The Approach of Hermeneutics
The approach of hermeneutics does not assume that all reasoning can be considered within some foundational belief, but rather must be interpreted in their own terms. Hermeneutics is therefore in conflict with many current cultural traditions descended from the dialectic. It is also directly contrasted with deconstruction, which has radically different conclusions about the results of textual analysis. To read and understand a text of Ricoeur is not to understand it in one way, now and forever. There is no "science" of interpretation, which affords the one correct, true reading. The possibility of understanding arises from "the totally positive relation of belonging." The "world" of the text and the "world" of the reader come across each other in a "fusion of horizons" that occurs in front of the text. Because in written discourse there is a distance in time and space separating the author and potential readers, there is a radical alienation that separates the reader from the sense of the author and the reference of the text. This distance functions like the dissimilarity in metaphor and the conflict of meanings in symbols. By reducing the conflict in meanings between the dissimilar "worlds" of t
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