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In this chapter I wish to explore the development of philosophical hermeneutics from Friedrich Schleiermacher to Paul Ricœur. We shall see that all the hermeneutical proposals discussed in the following pages are related to one another. Nevertheless each of these proposals is motivated by particular interests and concerns; we shall try to discover these motivations, follow their respective development through the last two centuries, and offer critical comments. In the context of this chapter I cannot, however, treat of all hermeneutical movements and proposals which have emerged since the Enlightenment. Instead I concentrate here on some major figures from the Continental philosophical tradition in Europe which have had a lasting impact on the development of hermeneutical thinking.
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Wilhelm Dilthey, Gesammelte Schriften vol. 5. 4th edn (Stuttgart: B. G. Teubner, and Göttingen: Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, 1964), 172 (my translation).
Cf. Richard E. Palmer, Hermeneutics: Interpretation Theory in Schleiermacher, Dilthey, Heidegger, and Gadamer (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1969), 115. (My translation repeats Palmer’s translation of the initial sentence of the present quotation.)
Edmund Husserl, Logische Untersuchungen 3 vols. Reprint of 2nd edn (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1980). Also in Husserliana vols XVIII and XIX (cf. note 44 below).
Edmund Husserl, Ideen zu einer reinen Phänomenologie und phänomenologischen Philosophie. Erstes Buch. Allgemeine Einführung in die reine Phänomenologie. In: Jahrbuch für Philosophie und phänomenologische Forschung, vol. 1. Reprint (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1980).
Cf. Hans-Georg Gadamer, ‘Die phänomenologische Bewegung’ (1963), Gesammelte Werke vol. 3: Neuere Philosophie I: Hegel-HusserlHeidegger (Tübingen: J.C.B. Mohr [Paul Siebeck], 1987),105–46, here 109.
Martin Heidegger, Sein und Zeit. 13th edn (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1976), 43. ET: Being and Time trans.
Martin Heidegger, Unterwegs zur Sprache. 4th edn (Pfullingen: Neske, 1971), 15 and 19.
Hans-Georg Gadamer, Reason in the Age of Science, trans. Frederick G. Lawrence (Cambridge, Mass., and London: MIT Press, 1981), 112.
Jürgen Habermas, ‘On Hermeneutics’ Claim to Universality’ (1970), now in MV, 294–319, here 302.
See Jürgen Habermas, Theorie des kommunikativen Handelns, 2 vols (Frankfurt/M.: Suhrkamp, 1981).
Paul Ricoeur, ‘Hermeneutics and the Critique of Ideology’, in his Hermeneutics and the Human Sciences: Essays on Language, Action and Interpretation, ed. and trans. John B. Thompson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981), 63–100.
Paul Ricoeur, The Conflict of Interpretations: Essays in Hermeneutics, ed. Don Ihde (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1974).
Paul Ricoeur, Freud and Philosophy: An Essay on Interpretation, trans. Denis Savage (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970), 43.
Paul Ricoeur, Interpretation Theory: Discourse and the Surplus of Meaning (Fort Worth: Texas Christian University Press, 1976), 87f.
Cf. Paul Ricœur, Essays on Biblical Interpretation. Ed. Lewis S. Mudge (Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1980).
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Jeanrond, W.G. (1991). The Development of Philosophical Hermeneutics: From Schleiermacher to Ricœur. In: Theological Hermeneutics. Library of Philosophy and Religion. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09597-1_3
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