
Introduction to Literary Hermeneutics
Translation by Martha Woodmansee. Foreword by Joel Weinsheimer
Peter Szondi(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 24. February 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
172 pages
978-0-521-45931-0 (ISBN)
Description
Peter Szondi is widely regarded as being among the most distinguished post-war literary critics. This first English edition of one of his most lucid and interesting series of lectures opens up his work in hermeneutics for English-speaking readers. The question of what is involved in understanding a text occupied Biblical and legal scholars long before it became a concern of literary critics. Peter Szondi here traces the development of hermeneutics through examination of the work of eighteenth-century German scholars. Ordinarily treated only as prefigurations of Schleiermacher, the work of Enlightenment theorists Johann Martin Chladenius, George Friedrich Meier, and Friedrich Ast yields valuable insight into the 'material theory' of interpretation, on which a practical interpretive methodology might be built.
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
225 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-521-45931-0 (9780521459310)
Copyright in bibliographic data and cover images is held by Nielsen Book Services Limited or by the publishers or by their respective licensors: all rights reserved.
Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Content
Foreword by Joel Weinsheimer; Translator's preface; 1. Introduction; 2. Chladenius, I; 3. Chladenius, II; 4. Chladenius, III; 5. Chladenius, IV; 6. Meier, I; 7. Meier, II; 8. Ast; 9. Schleiermacher, I; 10. Schleiermacher, II; Afterword; Index.