hermeneutic circle

In discovering the essence, however, the problem of the hermeneutic circle arises.

This is the situation he subjects to the hermeneutic circle in this book.

To do this, he first lays out what he calls a hermeneutic circle.

This further elaborates the idea of the hermeneutic circle.

The reciprocity between text and context is part of what Heidegger called the hermeneutic circle.

For postmodernists, the hermeneutic circle is especially problematic.

One can frequently find reference to the "hermeneutic circle": that is, relating the whole to the part and the part to the whole.

Heights Arts, solo exhibition, August 2004, "hermeneutic circle"

(In fact, Heidegger is employing a revised version of the phenomenological method; see the hermeneutic circle).

This interrupts the hermeneutic circle.

To complete the Hermeneutic circle, Segundo surveys all of Christian history, including the early church as chronicled in the gospels.

Such an activity will also reveal the observer's inescapable reliance on the hermeneutic circle as the defining "methodology" of social understanding for both lay persons and social scientists.

The process of interpretive inquiry established by Schleiermacher involved what Dilthey called the hermeneutic circle - the recurring movement between the implicit and the explicit, the particular and the whole.

Instead of resisting the admission of this paradox in the search for understanding, Heidegger requires that we embrace it through an active process of elucidation he called the "Hermeneutic Circle".

Martin Heidegger (1927) developed the concept of the hermeneutic circle to envision a whole in terms of a reality that was situated in the detailed experience of everyday existence by an individual (the parts).

De Man points out that the "textual unity" New Criticism locates in a given work has only a "semi-circularity" and that the hermeneutic circle is completed in "the act of interpreting the text."

In sum, the hermeneutic circle raises the paradox that, in any work, without understanding the whole, you can't fully comprehend the individual parts, but without understanding the parts, you cannot comprehend the whole.

In other words, the "experience in reality" of the first stage of the hermeneutic circle, or the situation that leads him to question the ideologies present for understanding the historical moment, is the situation in which liberation theology finds itself.

There are elements of a vicious version of the hermeneutic circle involved: people don't like poetry because they haven't read enough to come to terms with it, and they haven't read enough because they don't like it.

Paul de Man, in his essay "Form and Intent in the American New Criticism," talks about the hermeneutic circle with reference to paradoxical ideas about "textual unity" espoused by and inherited from American criticism.

The centrality of conversation to the hermeneutic circle is developed by Donald Schön (1983), who characterizes design as a hermeneutic circle that is developed by means of "a conversation with the situation."

Combining Gadamer and Heidegger into an epistemological critique of interpretation and reading, de Man argues that with New Criticism, American Criticism "pragmatically entered" the hermeneutic circle, "mistaking it for the organic circularity of natural processes."

Teaching often involves looking in detail at particular passages, in the hope that the part will relate coherently to the whole, but the doctrine of the hermeneutic circle reminds us that we cannot understand the parts until we understand the whole (and vice versa).

This is the problem of the "hermeneutic circle," and the necessity for the interpretation of the meaning of being to proceed in stages: this is why Heidegger's technique in Being and Time is sometimes referred to as hermeneutical phenomenology.

Furthermore, and more problematic for Shklar, "the hermeneutic circle makes sense only if there is a known and closed whole, which can be understood in terms of its own parts and which has as its core God, who is its anchor and creator.