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| Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher: Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher (1768 - 1834) was a German theologian, philosopher, publicist, state theorist, church politician and educator. He significantly shaped modern Protestant theology and is the founder of Dialectical Theology. Schleiermacher's theological thought is characterized by the idea that religion is a form of self-experience. Important works include Über die Religion (1799), Glaubenslehre (1821-1822), Hermeneutik und Kritik (1829)._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Paul Ricoeur on Schleiermacher - Dictionary of Arguments
II 22 Schleiermacher/Dilthey/hermeneutics/unterstanding/Ricoeur: [There has been a] use and abuse of the concept of speech event in the Romanticist tradition of hermeneutics. Hermeneutics as issuing from Schleiermacher and Dilthey tended to identify interpretation with the category of "understanding," and to define understanding as the recognition of an author's intention from the point of view of the primitive addressees in the original situation of discourse. This priority given to the author's intention and to the original audience tended, in turn, to make dialogue the model of every situation of understanding, thereby imposing the framework of intersubjectivity on hermeneutics. Understanding a text, then, is only a particular case of the dialogical situation in which someone responds to someone else. Ricoeur: This psychologizing conception of hermeneutics has had a great influence on Christian theology. It nourished the theologies of the Word-Event for which the event par excellence is a speech event, and this speech event is the Kerygma, the preaching of the Gospel. The meaning of the original event testifies to itself in the present event by which we apply it to ourselves in the act of faith. II 23 RicoeurVsSchleiermacher/RicoeurVsDilthey: My attempt here is to call into question the assumptions of this hermeneutic from the point of view of a philosophy of discourse in order to release hermeneutics from its psychologizing and existential prejudices. The assumptions of a psychologizing hermeneutic - like those of its contrary hermeneutics - stem from a double misunderstanding of the dialectic of event and meaning in discourse and the dialectic of sense and reference in meaning itself. This twofold misunderstanding in turn leads to assigning an erroneous task to interpretion, a task which is well expressed in the famous slogan, "to understand an author better than he understood himself." ((s) Cf. >Meaning Change/Philosophical theories, especially >Meaning Change/Rorty. Ricoeur: Therefore what is at stake in this discussion is the correct definition of the hermeneutical task. >Hermeneutics/Ricoeur, >Speaking/Ricoeur, >Writing/Ricoeur._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Ricoeur I Paul Ricoeur De L’interprétation. Essai sur Sigmund Freud German Edition: Die Interpretation. Ein Versuch über Freud Frankfurt/M. 1999 Ricoeur II Paul Ricoeur Interpretation theory: discourse and the surplus of meaning Fort Worth 1976 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-19