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Hermeneutics as a General Methodology of the Sciences of the Spirit book cover

1st Edition

Hermeneutics as a General Methodology of the Sciences of the Spirit

By Emilio Betti Copyright 2021
104 Pages
by Routledge

104 Pages
by Routledge

104 Pages
by Routledge
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With a Foreword by Lars Vinx, this book is the first complete English translation of the Italian jurist, Emilio Betti’s classic work Die Hermeneutik als allgemeine Methodik der Geisteswissenschaften, originally published in 1962. Betti’s hermeneutical theory is presented here as a ‘general methodology of the sciences of the spirit’, such as to allow the achievement of objectivity, however... Read more

Emilio Betti: A Short Bibliography

Some Untidy Reflections on Betti-Gadamer Debate

Lars Vinx

Editorial Preface

Giorgio A. Pinton

1. Hermeneutical Problematics in Contemporary Consciousness

2. Objectivations of the Spirit

3. Representative Forms

4. Representative Function & Expressive Value

5. To Interpret and to Understand

6. The Act of Interpretation as a Triadic Process

7. Inversion of the Creative Process and Transposition into one another Subjectivity

8. The Directives of Interpretation: The Canon of the Hermeneutical Autonomy of the Object

9. The Canon of the Coherence of Meanings (The Principle of Totality)

10. Analogy and Integrative Development

11. Canon of the Actuality of Understanding

12. Vital Rapport with the Subject-Matter & the Direction of the Inquiry

13. Is it possible to Achieve the Objectivity of the Historical Phenomena?

14. The Function of Sensibility for the Values proper of the Historian: The Value-relating Interpretation

15. The Answer to the Proposed Historical Question

16. Meaning of a Historical Phenomenon and its Significance in the Present

17. Dialog and Monolog

18. Historical Interpretation and Attribution of an Eschatological Meaning

19. The Risk of the Denial of Objectivity

20. Theological Hermeneutics and Demythologizing of the Kerygma

21. Recent Turn toward the Historicity of Understanding

22. The Prejudices as the Conditions of the Understanding

23. Existential Foundation of the Hermeneutic Circle

24. The Problem of the Correctness of the Understanding

25. Historical Understanding as Mediation of Past and the Present

26. Claim of a Practical Application of Interpretation

27. The Mentioned Claim is Justified only if the Interpretation is Normatively Oriented

28. Canon of the Hermeneutical Correspondence of Meaning (Adequation of Meaning in Understanding)

29. The Character as a Work of Historical Forms of Life Proposes a Problematics of the Higher Grade

30. The Technical Morphologic Interpretation in rapport to the Prospected Problems of Formation

31. Context of Meanings & Styles as Products of the Autonomy of the Spiritual Human Faculties

　

　

　

　

Biography

Emilio Betti (1890-1968) was an Italian jurist, Roman Law scholar and philosopher.

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