The Hermeneutic Tradition

From Ast to Ricoeur

Gayle L. Ormiston - Editor
Alan D. Schrift - Editor
SUNY series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory
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Release Date: December 1989
ISBN10: 0-7914-0136-7
ISBN13: 978-0-7914-0136-1

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Summary
Here are the major statements of the leading figures in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century German and
French hermeneutic traditions--the major statements on the aims, methods, and techniques of interpretation.
Some of these appear here for the first time in English.
This book establishes the context for contemporary analyses of interpretation. Part I traces the evolution of
hermeneutics from Friedrich Ast and Friedrich Schleiermacher through Wilhelm Dilthey to Martin Heidegger's
placing of hermeneutics at the center of the ontological analysis of human being. Part II follows the
development of the Heideggerian tradition in the writings of Hans-Georg Gadamer. Gadamer's "philosophical
hermeneutics" is then located at the center of several important exchanges with more traditional, objective
hermeneutical methodologists like Emilio Betti, ideology-critics like Jurgen Habermas, and linguisticphenomenological thinkers like Paul Ricoeur.
Gayle L. Ormiston is Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Kent State University. Alan D. Schrift is
Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Grinnell College.

Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Editors' Introduction
Part I. The Hermeneutic Legend
1. Hermeneutics
Friedrich Ast
2. The Aphorisms on Hermeneutics from 1805 and 1809/10
Friedrich D. E. Schleiermacher
3. The Hermeneutics: Outline of the 1819 Lectures
Friedrich D. E. Schleiermacher
4. The Rise of Hermeneutics
Wilhelm Dilthey
5. Being and Time (sections 3134)
Martin Heidegger
Part II. Hermeneutics and Critical Theory: Dialogues on Methodology

6. The Universality of the Hermeneutical Problem

Hans-Georg Gadamer
7. Hermeneutics as the General Methodology of the Geisteswissenschaften
Emilio Betti
8. Truth and Method ("Introduction" and "Foreword to the Second Edition")
Hans-Georg Gadamer
9. A Review of Gadamer's Truth and Method
Jrgen Habermas
10. The Hermeneutic Claim to Universality
Jrgen Habermas
11. Reply to My Critics
Hans-Georg Gadamer
12. Hermeneutics and the Critique of Ideology
Paul Ricoeur
Selected Bibliography
Contributors
Index