TOWARDS A NEGATIVE HERMENEUTICS: THE HERMENEUTICS/CRITICAL THEORY DEBATE IN A NEW REGISTER.
The relationship between hermeneutics and Critical Theory is often understood in terms of Paul Ricoeur's opposition of a hermeneutics of meaning recovery to a hermeneutics of suspicion. I propose to bridge this divide between recovery and suspicion by leveraging the idea that the legitimacy of a soc...
| Publicado en: | Symposium: Canadian Journal of Continental Philosophy / Revue Canadienne de Philosophie Continentale Vol. 28; no. 2; pp. 181 - 198 |
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Canadian Society for Continental Philosophy
Fall/Winter2024
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| Sumario: | The relationship between hermeneutics and Critical Theory is often understood in terms of Paul Ricoeur's opposition of a hermeneutics of meaning recovery to a hermeneutics of suspicion. I propose to bridge this divide between recovery and suspicion by leveraging the idea that the legitimacy of a society is a function of the adequacy of its self-understanding and by suggesting that a fundamental way in which illegitimate social power operates is through the strategic promulgation and policing of the semantic resources available to individuals for their own self-understanding and agency. I argue that hermeneutic democracy, one that promotes participation in the interpretive practices that generate collectively binding and enabling social meanings, is an antidote to such illegitimate restrictions on the agency of individuals and social groups. La relation entre l'herméneutique et la théorie critique est souvent comprise en termes d'opposition que fait Paul Ricoeur entre une herméneutique de la récupération du sens et une herméneutique de la suspicion. Je propose de combler cet écart entre récupération et suspicion en exploitant l'idée selon laquelle la légitimité d'une société est fonction de l'adéquation de sa compréhension de soi et en suggérant qu'un moyen fondamental par lequel le pouvoir social illégitime opère est à travers la promulgation stratégique et la surveillance des ressources sémantiques disponibles aux individus pour leur propre compréhension de soi et leur agentivité. Je soutiens qu'une démocratie herméneutique, qui promeut la participation aux pratiques interprétatives générant des significations sociales collectivement contraignantes et habilitantes, est un antidote à ces restrictions illégitimes sur l'agentivité des individus et des groupes sociaux. |
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