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Malpas, J, Foreword, Place, Space and Hermeneutics, Springer International Publishing AG, BB Janz (ed), United States, pp. v-vii. ISBN 978-3-319-52212-8 (2017) [Other Book Chapter]
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DOI: doi:10.1007/978-3-319-52214-2
Abstract
Whether one's focus is a text or utterance, a practice or activity, even a building or
a landscape, the task of understanding and interpreting is necessarily tied to the
concrete situatedness of the interpretive encounter. This is so in two ways: first,
because it is the encounter that itself gives rise to the need to understand and interpret
(the situation thus draws us into interpretive engagement) and, second, because
the very possibility of understanding and interpretation is predicated on that situatedness
(the situation thus offers the means by which understanding and interpretation
can proceed as well as constraining the manner in which it does proceed). This
holds true whether we look to hermeneutics as designating the theory and practice
of interpretation as it might apply across a range of "interpretive" disciplines-from
art and literature through to politics, cultural studies, and history-or whether we
look to hermeneutics, in its transformed Heideggerian sense, as the interpretation of
being.
Item Details
Item Type: | Other Book Chapter |
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Keywords: | hermeneutics |
Research Division: | Philosophy and Religious Studies |
Research Group: | Philosophy |
Research Field: | Hermeneutics |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in philosophy and religious studies |
UTAS Author: | Malpas, J (Professor Jeff Malpas) |
ID Code: | 121243 |
Year Published: | 2017 |
Deposited By: | Office of the School of Humanities |
Deposited On: | 2017-09-19 |
Last Modified: | 2017-09-19 |
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