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Rhetoric and double hermeneutics in the human sciences

Dimitri Ginev(Софийски университет Св Климент Охридски)

pp. 259-271

Abstrakt

Based on an analysis of double hermeneutics in the human sciences, a distinction between a "weak" and a "strong" rhetorical analysis of human-scientific research is introduced, taking account of the self-reflective character of hermeneutic interpretation. The paper argues that there are three hermeneutic topics in the research process for human-scientific experience, which are associated with applying specific rhetorical tools. The three topics are described under the following rubrics: (a) bridging the gap between "experience-near" and "experience-distant" concepts; (b) achieving integrity of the cultural objects dispersed in different interpretive strategies; and (c) taking into consideration that an important task of hermeneutic interpretation in human-scientific research is to give an account of the object's immanent narrative coherence. The paper is written in the conviction that a kind of re-methodologization of philosophical hermeneutics which does not rehabilitate epistemological foundationalism can provide a new philosophical identity to the human sciences.

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Published in:

(1998) Human Studies 21 (3).

Seiten: 259-271

DOI: 10.1023/A:1005327608803

Referenz:

Ginev Dimitri (1998) „Rhetoric and double hermeneutics in the human sciences“. Human Studies 21 (3), 259–271.