Interpretation

A Critical Primer

Nathan Eric Dickman (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

176 Seiten

2023
Equinox Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80050-336-6 (ISBN)

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While many people engage in interpretation, it is not clear what interpretation is. This critical primer examines the nature of interpretation, strategies within interpretation, and negotiations about the adequacy of an interpretation, with special attention paid to possible roles hermeneutics (the theory of interpretation) plays in the academic study of religions.

This book addresses a number of fundamental questions posed throughout the history of hermeneutics:
• What is an “interpretation”?
• What or who determines the meaning of a text?
• What helps in navigating competitions or conflicts of interpretation?
• What is the place of interpretation in the academy, relative to explanatory sciences and productive arts?

Many books have focused on historical developments of hermeneutics, on key modern hermeneutic philosophers, or on specific sacred texts such as in biblical or Quranic hermeneutics. The unique approach taken to interpretation here is based on the fundamental axiom of philosophical hermeneutics—the hermeneutic priority of questioning. Through this, the author makes a case for the critical value of interpretation.

Each chapter of this book refines a conceptual element that combines with others into a theory of interpretation useful for the classroom and in scholarship on hermeneutics.

Nathan Eric Dickman (PhD, The University of Iowa) is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of the Ozarks. He researches in hermeneutic phenomenology, philosophy of language, and comparative questions in philosophies of religions, with particular concerns about global social justice issues in ethics and religions. He has taught a breadth of courses, such as Critical Thinking, Islam, Ethics, Zen, Existentialism, and the Historical Jesus. His Using Questions to Think (Bloomsbury, 2021) examines the roles questions play in critical thinking and reasoning.

Preface

Introduction: What is the Meaning of a Text?

Chapter 1. The Predicaments of Interpretation

Chapter 2. The Initiatives of Interpretation

Chapter 3. The Mediums of Interpretation

Chapter 4. The Objects of Interpretation

Chapter 5. The Practices of Interpretation

Conclusion: What Lies beyond Interpretation?

Appendix
Suggested Readings

Erscheinungsdatum	26.09.2023
Reihe/Serie	Concepts in the Study of Religion
Zusatzinfo	1 figure
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	137 x 213 mm
Gewicht	658 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Erkenntnistheorie / Wissenschaftstheorie
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
ISBN-10	1-80050-336-9 / 1800503369
ISBN-13	978-1-80050-336-6 / 9781800503366
Zustand	Neuware