hermeneutics Meaning & Definition

  • En [ ˌhɜː.mɪˈnjuː.tɪks]
  • Us [ ˌhɝː.məˈnuːt̬ɪks]

Meaning of hermeneutics In English

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Examples of hermeneutics

  • They constitute representations of the past, and are often explicable through hermeneutics.

  • Whatever their differences over predestination they employed the same arguments to support toleration, arguments turning on biblical hermeneutics.

  • Having so defined the purpose of hermeneutics, he goes on to explain how to pursue that aim in practical terms.

  • He studies it as a literary text subject to linguistic and textual methodologies and hermeneutics (p. 22).

  • The journal encourages analyses whose approach is drawn from cognate disciplines such as social anthropology, art history, hermeneutics, and social sciences.

  • Nor have they considered the relationships between, for example, epistemologies, hermeneutics, knowledge, power and politics, or what relativism might comprise.

  • Thus, it is different from the familiar idea of complementary combination of hermeneutics and the sociology of knowledge.

  • It is constituted by the hermeneutics of suspicion and it sustains it at the same time, thus embracing the cause of self-discipline.

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