A REINTERPRETATION OF SCHLEIERMACHER'S HERMENEUTICS

Friedrich Schleirermacher is generally recognized as the father of modern hermeneutics. This means that hermeneutics as a science or, rather, as an art, of understanding as such originates from Schleiermacher. Before him, there were only specialized hermeneutics: philological, biblical, and legal. However, this also implies that, in this postmodern age, Schleiermacher's hermeneutics has become something passe, something safe to aufheben if not prudent to ignore. For it is widely believed to be a psychological one, which is doubly mistaken ...

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