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The Hermeneutic Tradition

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01 December 1989

The major statements of the leading figures in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century German and French hermeneutic traditions.
Here are the major statements of the leading figures in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century German and French hermeneutic traditions-the major statements on the aims, methods, and techniques of interpretation. Some of these appear here for the first time in English.
This book establishes the context for contemporary analyses of interpretation. Part I traces the evolution of hermeneutics from Friedrich Ast and Friedrich Schleiermacher through Wilhelm Dilthey to Martin Heidegger's placing of hermeneutics at the center of the ontological analysis of human being. Part II follows the development of the Heideggerian tradition in the writings of Hans-Georg Gadamer. Gadamer's "philosophical hermeneutics" is then located at the center of several important exchanges with more traditional, objective hermeneutical methodologists like Emilio Betti, ideology-critics like Jürgen Habermas, and linguistic-phenomenological thinkers like Paul Ricoeur.


Preface
Acknowledgments
Editors' Introduction
Part I. The Hermeneutic Legend
1. Hermeneutics
Friedrich Ast
2. The Aphorisms on Hermeneutics from 1805 and 1809/10
Friedrich D. E. Schleiermacher
3. The Hermeneutics: Outline of the 1819 Lectures
Friedrich D. E. Schleiermacher
4. The Rise of Hermeneutics
Wilhelm Dilthey
5. Being and Time (sections 31–34)
Martin Heidegger
Part II. Hermeneutics and Critical Theory: Dialogues on Methodology
6. The Universality of the Hermeneutical Problem
Hans-Georg Gadamer
7. Hermeneutics as the General Methodology of the Geisteswissenschaften
Emilio Betti
8. Truth and Method ("Introduction" and "Foreword to the Second Edition")
Hans-Georg Gadamer
9. A Review of Gadamer's Truth and Method
Jürgen Habermas
10. The Hermeneutic Claim to Universality
Jürgen Habermas
11. Reply to My Critics
Hans-Georg Gadamer
12. Hermeneutics and the Critique of Ideology
Paul Ricoeur
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index