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Reflections on hermeneutics and translocality
[working paper]
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Zentrum Moderner Orient
Abstract "This paper reflects on the issues that were brought
to the Roundtable on Hermeneutics and Translocality
held at the ZMO in 2006. I review the successive
ways in which I have drawn on the hermeneutic
philosophical tradition as an anthropologist,
emphasing the ethical dimension. Translocality
h... view more
"This paper reflects on the issues that were brought
to the Roundtable on Hermeneutics and Translocality
held at the ZMO in 2006. I review the successive
ways in which I have drawn on the hermeneutic
philosophical tradition as an anthropologist,
emphasing the ethical dimension. Translocality
heightens the hermeneutic problem but does not
radically change it; it may entail recognizing that
everything is always already pretranslated. In reflecting
on the task and means of anthropology, I
briefly juxtapose Gadamer’s admirable deference
or modesty to Ricoeur’s dialectic of appropriation
and distanciation and to what Cavell calls the arrogation
of voice." [author´s abstract]... view less
Keywords
research; philosophy; anthropology; ethics; hermeneutics; interpretation; text; understanding
Classification
Philosophy of Science, Theory of Science, Methodology, Ethics of the Social Sciences
Document language
English
Publication Year
2011
City
Berlin
Page/Pages
7 p.
Series
ZMO Working Papers, 4
ISSN
2191-3897
Status
reviewed
Licence
Deposit Licence - No Redistribution, No Modifications