1st Edition
Romanticism, Hermeneutics and the Crisis of the Human Sciences
By Scott Masson
Copyright 2004
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
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First published in 2004. This study begins by surveying the field of modern hermeneutics. Noting its repeated crisis of self-legitimisation, it traces these to circular beliefs bequeathed by Romanticism that human nature is self-begetting, and can thus be known intimately and autonomously.
After providing a historical overview of how human nature had been understood, the focus shifts to the... Read more
Acknowledgements; Introduction – Two Worlds’ Words; 1. Modern Hermeneutics: The Development of Universal Relativity by Understanding Meaning in Terms of Truth 2. Hannah Arendt’s Study of the Human Condition 3. Wordsworth’s Understanding of Nature in the ‘Preface to Lyrical Ballads’ (1802) and the Hermeneutic Significance of Feelings 4. Shelley’s Organic Theology in Mont Blanc 5. Keat’s Eternal Urn; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
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