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- Foundationalism and Hermeneutics - Site about the interaction of hermeneutics and foundationalism. The interaction of hermeneutics and foundationalism is the same as the interaction of interpretation and reality. Our connection to reality may underdetermine the interpretation, leaving a range of possibilities, but it does impose a limit to interpretation, determining a certain range. What hermeneutics and foundationalism really represent, however, is something logically more precise. Hermeneutics is about interpretation, which is about meaning, which is about what is understood. Foundationalism is about reality, which is about truth, which is about what is known.
- Paul Ricoeur and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion:A Brief Overview and Critique - Hermeneutics is both science and art. In many ways this beguilingly simple statement is responsible for the modern ferment in hermeneutics - a process begun with F. Schleiermacher (1768-1834) and his attempt to gain meaning through understanding the mind of the author; given significant impetus more recently in the seminal work of Hans-Georg Gadamer and his call for a dialectic between the horizons of the text and reader; and radicalized in the increasingly reader-response oriented hermeneutics of today. Ricoeur's hermeneutic of suspicion represents his attempt to retain both science and art, whilst disallowing either an absolute status.
- Applied Hermeneutics - Bibliography with the following categories: Hermeneutics and Cognitive Science; Literary Hermeneutics; Hermeneutics and Economics; Hermeneutics and Education; Interpretation in Medicine, Psychiatry and Psychotherapy; and Animal Behavior.
- Hermeneutics in Russia - Hermeneutics in Russia is an international quarterly intended to answer questions about the problems of hermeneutics. Problems of reflectivity, interpretation and forming readiness for understanding will also be discussed.
- Richard E. Palmer - Richard Palmer has been one of America's leading experts in Hermeneutic philosophy for decades. His textbook, "Hermeneutics" is well know to all who have studied in the field. His personal webpage contains a wealth of hermeneutic information, including the full text of four articles and an extensive bibliographic resource for those studying Gadamer.
- Hermeneutics: 2. Twentieth Century - "Hermeneutics in the Twentieth Century" in The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
- Hermeneutics: 1. Nineteenth Century - "Hermeneutics in the Ninteenth Century" in The Johns Hopkins Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism
- Explaining Hermeneutics - Excellent commentary on The Chicago Statement on Biblical Hermeneutics Articles of Affirmation and Denial. (Dr. Norman L. Geisler)
- Nick Szabo -- Hermeneutics - Overview of Philosophical hermeneutics with relevance to practical applications such as the development of common law, computational theory, and evolution.
- Modern Hermeneutics: Legitimate Contrasted with Illegitimate - Illegitimate hermeneutics improperly limits a Bible text to a single meaning consistent with the human author's prior knowledge. This is the first in a series of studies.
Wikipedia Articles
- Hermeneutics - Hermeneutics may be described as the development and study of theories of the interpretation and understanding of texts. In contemporary usage in religious studies, hermeneutics refers to the study of the interpretation of religious texts.
- Qura'nic hermeneutics - Qura'nic Hermeneutics refers to study of theories of the interpretation and understanding of the Qur'an. Throughout religious history scholars of the Qur'an have sought to mine the wealth of its meanings by developing a variety of different systems of hermeneutics.
- Talmudical Hermeneutics - Talmudical Hermeneutics (Hebrew: approximately, מידות שהתורה נדרשת בהן) refers to the science which defines the rules and methods for the investigation and exact determination of the meaning of the Scriptures, both legal and historical. Since the Halakah, however, is regarded simply as an exposition and explanation of the Torah, Talmud hermeneutics includes also the rules by which the requirements of the oral law are derived from and established by the written law.
- Biblical hermeneutics - Biblical Hermeneutics refers to methods of interpreting the Bible.
- Hans Wilhelm Frei - Hans Wilhelm Frei (1922-1988) is best known for work on biblical hermeneutics, especially on the interpretation of narrative. His 1974 book, The Eclipse of Biblical Narrative (Yale University Press) is an influential history of eighteenth- and nineteenth century biblical hermeneutics in England and Germany; The Identity of Jesus Christ (Fortress Press, 1975) tried to show what kind of theology (specifically Christology) would cohere with a renewed attention to the narrative nature of the Gospels.