Towards a Hermeneutics of Spirit
Publisher: Bucknell University Press
Published: April 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 160
ISBN-13: 9780838754375
Subjects: Literary theory; Literary Collections; Philosophy; Literature: Classics; Epistemology; Essays; General
Description: "The work begins by drawing a contrast between the emphasis placed on the author, characteristic of the romantic hermeneutics of Schleiermacher, and the more contemporary emphasis on the text, as may be seen in Gadamer, Ricoeur, the Deconstructionists, etc. These two emphases are understood as concentrating primarily on the intention of the author, on the one hand, and on the intent or intents of the text, on the other.

These two are joined in a hermeneutic that attempts to divine the author/text relationship."--BOOK JACKET.