Telecom Computer Security Databases Handheld Devices Tech. I don't disagree with your account of Ricouer, but I think ther are two issues still to be gotten at. The notion of critical distance is essential to the hermeneutical project. It is important to recall that the conversation we have with a text and a texts historicity is but a conversation with ourselves. We project the history we imagine belongs to the text onto it and then must listen to what we are telling ourselves.
History is always more about the reader than the period being read.