gadamer

Gadamer Herder claimed that human nature and understanding are not “essentially the same in all times and places” and so by this he introduced the idea of perspectivism in to literary thought. Gadamer expands upon this idea and uses the terminology and claims of phenomenology/existentialism, in his theory of interpretation. He reminds us that “one’s own perspective” is the view from within one’s own horizon, that is, we are all wedged in …

…asked us to be as introspective about ourselves as we are the text and gives us a way that we can directly understand the text, even if it implies that we can never entirely understand it. Bibliography Gadamer. H. G, ‘Hermeneutics as a practical philosophy’, in Baynes Bohman and McCarthy (eds) After philosophy, MIT Press 1987, p.330 Hirsch .E.D, Faulty perspectives, in modern criticism and theory, David lodge and Nigel wood (eds), Longman, second edition, 2000.