School · 1900 CE–2005 CE
Hermeneutics
Hermeneutics is theory of interpretation that came to address language, historical understanding, texts, action, and self-understanding.
Shared questions
- How can interpretation reach understanding across historical, linguistic, and cultural distance?
Internal disagreements
- Whether interpretation recovers authorial intention, exposes hidden conditions, or opens a dialogical encounter with a text and tradition.
Key texts
- Truth and Method · 1960 — Gadamer's account of understanding as a fusion of horizons, written against method as the guarantor of truth.
- Time and Narrative · 1983–1985 — Ricoeur's three volumes on how narrative configures lived time.