1st Edition
Romanticism, Hermeneutics and the Crisis of the Human Sciences
By Scott Masson
Copyright 2004
251 Pages
by
Routledge
251 Pages
by
Routledge
251 Pages
by
Routledge
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The human sciences established and developed in the nineteenth century have slowly disintegrated. It is an ironic end. It was in the name of the greater legitimacy of more universal psychological criteria that its architects disavowed the traditional theological standard for valuing and evaluating human words and deeds. With hindsight, we can see that universality was indeed gained, but only at... Read more
Contents: Introduction - Two worlds' words; Modern hermeneutics: the development of universal relativity by understanding meaning in terms of truth; Hannah Arendt's study of the human condition; Wordsworth's understanding of nature in the 'Preface to Lyrical Ballads' (1802) and the hermeneutic significance of feeling; Shelley's organic theology in Mont Blanc; Keats's eternal urn; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Dr. Scott Masson is an Associate Professor of English Literature at Tyndale University College in Toronto, Canada.
