Schleiermacher: Hermeneutics and Criticism
And Other Writings

A new translation and edition of the founding text of modern hermeneutics.

Friedrich Schleiermacher (Author), Andrew Bowie (Edited by)

9780521598484, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 26 November 1998

328 pages
22.7 x 15.4 x 2 cm, 0.533 kg

"This is a most welcome and much needed edition..." Religious Studies Review

The founding text of modern hermeneutics. Written by the philosopher and theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher as a method for the interpretation and textual criticism of the New Testament, it develops ideas about language and the interpretation of texts that are in many respects still unsurpassed and are becoming current in the contemporary philosophy of language. Contrary to the traditional view of Schleiermacher as a theorist of empathetic interpretation, in this text he offers a view of understanding that acknowledges both the structurally and historically determined aspects of language and the need to take account of the activity of the individual subject in the constitution of meaning. This volume offers the text in a new translation by Andrew Bowie, together with related writings on secular hermeneutics and on language, and an introduction that places the texts in the context of Schleiermacher's philosophy as a whole.

Introduction
Chronology
Further reading
Note on the text and the translation
1. Hermeneutics and criticism
2. General hermeneutics
3. Schematism and language
Index.

Subject Areas: Western philosophy: c 1600 to c 1900 [HPCD]