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  • 7 - Hermeneutics

  • Edited by Michael N. Forster, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Kristin Gjesdal, Temple University, Philadelphia
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Hermeneutics
    Published online:
    27 December 2018
    Print publication:
    03 January 2019, pp 158-183

  • Summary

    This chapter charts several key points of contact between Nietzsche and the hermeneutical tradition. It begins by arguing that the familiar claim that Nietzsche offers a hermeneutics of suspicion is potentially misleading. Seeking a more accurate representation of Nietzsche’s views, the chapter argues that Nietzsche’s interpretive stance has several key features: he rejects immediate givens, endorses holism and perspectivism, and sees conscious experience as structured by concepts and language. Methodologically, Nietzsche inaugurates a genealogical approach to studying objects of philosophical concern, and offers a series of thoughts and arguments on perspectives and the ways in which they might be assessed. After explaining these points, the chapter reviews the way in which Nietzsche takes religious, moral, and philosophical systems as aspiring to provide an interpretation of existence that renders it meaningful. The closing section briefly discusses the Nietzschean approach to interpretation that is adopted by Foucault.

  • 2 - Hermeneutics and Nature

  • Edited by Michael N. Forster, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn, Kristin Gjesdal, Temple University, Philadelphia
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to Hermeneutics
    Published online:
    27 December 2018
    Print publication:
    03 January 2019, pp 37-64

  • Summary

    Pointing to recent work in the history of science, which demonstrates the influence of the methods of human sciences on the natural sciences in the Renaissance and the Early Modern period, I argue that a similar, and even more profound influence, can be seen in the ways in which the development of modern hermeneutics resulted in the development of dynamic geography in the late eighteenth century. I begin by showing that it was through the liberalization of natural science in the work of Buffon and Diderot that the notion of interpretation became essential for the study of nature. I go on to demonstrate that it was Herder, the founder of modern hermeneutics, who not only elaborated on this notion of interpretation, but also provided the first comprehensive account of the methodology of interpretation, applying it not only to the study of texts and historical figures, but also to the study of nature. Through his hermeneutic practice, Herder paved the way for a new conception of a natural environment, or what he called a “world” or a “circle.” The various elements that constitute this world, Herder argued, must be regarded in the same way that we regard an author in his or her historical context, i.e., as both effected by it and effecting it. This dynamic conception of the natural world led, in turn, to the founding of modern geography.

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