Hermeneutics as a General Methodology of the Sciences of the Spirit Betti Emilio
Hermeneutics as a General Methodology of the Sciences of the Spirit Betti Emilio With a Foreword by Lars Vinx, this book is the first complete English translation of the Italian jurist, Emilio…
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Hermeneutics as a General Methodology of the Sciences of the Spirit Betti Emilio
With a Foreword by Lars Vinx, this book is the first complete English translation of the Italian jurist, Emilio Betti's classic work Die Hermeneutik als allgemeine Methodik der Geisteswissenschaften, originally published in 1962.Betti's hermeneutical theory is presented here as a 'general methodology of the sciences of the spirit', such as to allow the achievement of objectivity, however relative it might be. Set against the work of Bultmann and Gadamer, Betti is concerned to limit the arbitrariness of subjectivity without diminishing the place of interpretation. Its central focus is the tension between an object, to be considered in its autonomy, and the subjectivity of the interpreter, who can understand the object only by means of his or her own categories, historical-cultural conditions, and interests.
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