Critical hermeneutics (n.) is interpretation used to expose the hidden ideology and power behind texts and traditions.
Critical hermeneutics (n.) is the habit of asking who profits from every sentence.
Critical hermeneutics (n.) is the marriage of critical theory (i.e. Emancipation from political power) to hermeneutics in order to penetrate false consciousness, discovering the ideological nature of belief systems, promoting distortion-free communication, as well as accomplishing a liberating consensus.
Critical hermeneutics (n.) is guided by the four main principles aiming to delegitimize traditional power structures: reproduction and hegemony (which must be avoided) and reflection and application (which are principles of possibility).
Hermeneutic circle (n.) is the idea that understanding the parts of a text depends on the whole, and the whole on the parts.
The Hermeneutic circle (n.) is the idea that how we classify the current context itself depends on the relevant information.
The Hermeneutic circle (n.) is not a problem about making successive approximations but a problem about how to get started at all.
The Hermeneutic circle (n.) is a circularity in the act of interpretation. It works like this: how can you recognize and judge some specific factor in a situation or text without a general sense of the situation or text overall, yet how can you have this overall sense without somehow first ascertaining its parts
The Hermeneutic code (n.) is the riddle a text leaves so you keep reading.
The Hermeneutic code (n.) contains anything in the text that is mysterious or unexplained, usually leading to questions which the reader needs answered.
Hermeneutics of Dasein (n.) is Heidegger's interpretation of human existence, showing how all understanding rests on a prior understanding.
The Hermeneutics of Dasein (n.) is concerned with the ways that all interpretation is rooted in a foregoing understanding, that interpretation is not restricted to language, that the meaning of what someone does or says may be opaque to her, and that interpretation moves in a circle from part to whole and back, from beginning to end and back.