Text, Interpretation, Praxis: Ricoeur's Hermeneutics in From Text To Action

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Title:	Text, Interpretation, Praxis: Ricoeur's Hermeneutics in From Text To Action
Authors:	Sun,YP
Contributors:	哲學研究所
Date:	2011
Issue Date:	2012-03-27 17:16:25 (UTC+8)
Publisher:	國立中央大學
Abstract:	This paper tries to elucidate how Ricoeur, the most famous French philosopher of hermeneutics in the twentieth century, following the critique of Schleiermacher's and Dilthey's objectivism that modeled itself after natural sciences, and was inherited Heidegger's and Gadamer's hermeneutics of Dasein's ontology by discussing "pre-understanding," "prejudice," and "ideology," on the one hand; and how he criticizes the fracture between epistemology and Heidegger's ontology, which causes the lack of objective knowing method of the latter's hermeneutics, on the other hand. It is to explain how Ricoeur reconstructs objective method for hermeneutics by involving in structuralism and linguistics whose objectivity, as he thinks, belongs to Humanities themselves. However there remains discrepancy between Ricoeur and structuralism as well as deconstructionism, namely, their disagreement about the question whether symbols should have the signified referents outside the system of the signifying or not. Besides, it will show the greatest contribution Ricoeur gave to the current hermeneutics: he traces understanding of text back to Aristotle' s Poetics and Nicomachean Ethics, emphasizing the common feature of interpretation and narrative, i.e., the emplotment and searching for meaning, and then connects understanding and interpretation of text with action, event and agent. By doing this, Ricoeur sketches a clear picture of human individual facing a text, who is always an actor with a purposeful intention in a meaningful context and at all time looking for and constructing meaningfulness by action as well as by understanding. According to this, Ricoeur expands hermeneutics into human culture and history, giving values and meaning to them in contrast to nihilism.
Relation:	UNIVERSITAS-MONTHLY REVIEW OF PHILOSOPHY AND CULTURE
Appears in Collections:	[Graduate Institute of Philosophy] journal & Dissertation

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