SOSC 1009 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Lifeworld, Edmund Husserl, Friedrich Schleiermacher
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This word was first mentioned by a german philosopher, who is friedrich schleiermacher (1768 - 1834) in bible studies. Hermeneutics is used in term of interpreting the text, the context and the author of the sacred text, or scripture, in bible. Hermeneutics comes from the greek word hermeneueien ( to understand ) and hermes, the divine messenger in greek mythology who is the bearer of information and knowledge. Later, the word hermeneutics was applied in human science research by wilhelm dilthey (1833 - 1911) and in contemporary hermeneutics, hans georg. Gadamer (1900 2002) introduced an important term in hermeneutics, that is a fusion of horizons . In other words, gadamer claimed that when one is reading a text, he brings together his own experiences, assumptions, beliefs, knowledge (and these are so called his own. The reader"s horizons and the author"s horizons, expressed by the literary world of the text, both made a collision in the act of reading and interpreting.
