Hermeneutics Ancient and Modern

by Gerald L. Bruns

Book Overview

In this wide-ranging meditation on the nature and purpose of hermeneutics, Gerald L. Bruns argues that hermeneutics is not merely a contemporary theory but an extended family of questions about understanding and interpretation that have multiple and conflicting histories going back to before the beginning of writing.

What does it mean to understand a riddle, an action, a concept, a law, an alien culture, or oneself? Bruns expands our sense...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300063032
• ISBN13: 9780300063035
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"