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What is Hermeneutics? Explain with reference to the contribution of Hans-Georg Gadamer.
by Saroj Meher · Published 13th February 2018 · Updated 4th June 2018
What is Hermeneutics? Explain with reference to the contribution of Hans-Georg Gadamer.
Hermenutics (the interpretation of tradition) i s a part of the methodological quest to understand the social reality. As it has been applied as a method in sociology, we need to look at its location in the scene of methodological disputes in the social sciences and trace i t s history for learning of i t s significance in sociological inquiry.
You will find that not much work in sociology in India has the applied hermeneutics approach, but its application is quite popular in areas where tradition is perceived as significant in the lives of the people. Wherever there is a new interpretation of the tradition, application of hermeneutics becomes a necessity.
Contribution of Hans-Georg Gadamer.
Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002) took the discussion of hermeneutics to a different plane. Gadamer argued that i f one were to take seriously the claim of understanding being a category of life, then one could not see hermeneutics narrowly as a methodological tool, but one had to instead + speak of ‘universal’ hermeneutics, since all human experience has a
hermeneutic dimension. In an unselfconscious manner, we are engaged in the hermeneutic task of understanding all the time, but we only become conscious of it when we have an experience of misunderstanding, when we feel that we have not read the situation correctly. Just as breathing is a constant part of us as long as we Live, so is ‘understanding’ a part of our being in the world. In the introduction to Truth and Method, Gadamer (1975) categorically stated that the hermeneutics he was developing was not a methodology of the human sciences. The philosophical questions of Truth and Method were: “what is understanding, and how is understanding possible?” Gadamer defined hermeneutics as the “basic being-in-motion of There-being which constitutes i t s finiteness and historicity and hence includes the whole of its experience of the world”. … The study of hermeneutics is thus the study of Being, and, ultimately, the study of Hermeneutics language, because “Being that can be understood is language” (as quoted in Hekman
by Saroj Meher · Published 13th February 2018 · Updated 4th June 2018
What is Hermeneutics? Explain with reference to the contribution of Hans-Georg Gadamer.
Hermenutics (the interpretation of tradition) i s a part of the methodological quest to understand the social reality. As it has been applied as a method in sociology, we need to look at its location in the scene of methodological disputes in the social sciences and trace i t s history for learning of i t s significance in sociological inquiry.
You will find that not much work in sociology in India has the applied hermeneutics approach, but its application is quite popular in areas where tradition is perceived as significant in the lives of the people. Wherever there is a new interpretation of the tradition, application of hermeneutics becomes a necessity.
Contribution of Hans-Georg Gadamer.
Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900-2002) took the discussion of hermeneutics to a different plane. Gadamer argued that i f one were to take seriously the claim of understanding being a category of life, then one could not see hermeneutics narrowly as a methodological tool, but one had to instead + speak of ‘universal’ hermeneutics, since all human experience has a
hermeneutic dimension. In an unselfconscious manner, we are engaged in the hermeneutic task of understanding all the time, but we only become conscious of it when we have an experience of misunderstanding, when we feel that we have not read the situation correctly. Just as breathing is a constant part of us as long as we Live, so is ‘understanding’ a part of our being in the world. In the introduction to Truth and Method, Gadamer (1975) categorically stated that the hermeneutics he was developing was not a methodology of the human sciences. The philosophical questions of Truth and Method were: “what is understanding, and how is understanding possible?” Gadamer defined hermeneutics as the “basic being-in-motion of There-being which constitutes i t s finiteness and historicity and hence includes the whole of its experience of the world”. … The study of hermeneutics is thus the study of Being, and, ultimately, the study of Hermeneutics language, because “Being that can be understood is language” (as quoted in Hekman
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