hermeneutics

is a form of inquiry that necessarily remains open-ended and ambiguous such that a genuine question is more important than settling finally on solutions or answers.

A distinctive feature of hermeneutics is that this form of inquiry remains open-ended and ambiguous. 'A genuine question is more important than settling finally on solutions or answers' (Smits, 2001).

is a kind of empirical objectivity to be tested and corrected.

Weber here is not as fully hermeneutic as later scholars armed with tape recorders and engaging in longer term participant-observation might be, but he provides the beginnings of an intersubjective methodology that can lay claim to empirical objectivity, and that can be interatively tested and corrected' (Fischer 2007:16)

is a lens through which the other is no longer an object for the subject but becomes someone to whom we are bound in the reciprocations of language and life.

Now, instead, there is an Other, who is not an object for the subject but someone to whom we are bound in the reciprocations of language and life.

is a method of inquiry aiming toward understanding which, rather than arguing from assumed premises, logic, or syllogism, progresses by skirting, by repetition, by presenting the same thing from a slightly different angle until suddenly the reader takes into themselves a wider truth even though no conclusive moment of proof can be pointed to.

with the infallible but often meaningless logic of the algebraic equation. They argue from assumed premises to incontestibly deduced conclusions. Jung and his colleauges seem to me, whether they know it or not, to reject the limitations of this method of argument. it is not that they ignore logic, but they appear alll the time to be arguing to the unconsicious as well as to the conscious. Their dialectical method is itself sybolic and often devious. they convince not by means of the narrowly focused spotlight of the syllogism but by skirting, by repetition, by presenting a recurring view of the ame subject seen each time from a slightly different angle until suddenly the reader who has never been aware of a single conclusive moment of proof finds that he has unknowingly embrassed and taken into himself some wider truth' (Editor's introduction to Jung's Man and His Symbols')

is a method of interpretation aimed at reproducing the meaning of intention of the author by following well-defined hermeneutical canons that guide reading.

The aim of interpretation is to reproduce the meaning of intention of the author by following well-defined hermeneutical canons that guide reading (Gallagher, 1992).

is a method seeking to understand an author better than he has himself.

Schleiermacher's famous hermeneutic principle: 'to understand an author better than he has understood himself' (Schleiermacher).

is a method which asks not 'what is x' but 'what does it mean when you use the word x'; that asks not what is truth, but what does it mean when you use the word truth.

It is a hermeneutic project. . . . . . 'It just asks when we use certain notions. . . what is the implicit horizon of understanding. . . the question is what does it mean when you use the word 'truth'. . . not 'what is truth'. . . (zizek in zizek!).

is a method which, through interpretation, converts absences into signs.

And while hermeneutics doesn't necessarily spring from hostile suspicion, it always presupposes that what appears on the surface is not the truth and seeks to control what lies beneath. Through interpretation, it converts absences into signs. (Asad 2007 : 31)

hermeneutics, n.Definitions

hermeneutics