The Approach of Hermeneutics The approach of hermeneutics does not assume that all reasoning can be considered within some foundational belief, but rather must be interpreted in their own terms. Hermeneutics is therefore in conflict with many current cultural traditions descended from the dialectic. It is also directly contrasted with deconstruction, which has radically different conclusions about the results of textual analysis. To read and understand a text of Ricoeur is not to understand it …showed first 75 words of 840 total…

…showed last 75 words of 840 total…judgment, however, is always romanticize, because the reader belongs to the world of language, culture and interpretation therefore necessarily use prejudgments or pre-understandings in interpreting a text. While understanding makes a claim on explanation, explanation can also make a claim on understanding. The process leads to misuse or appropriation, the aim of hermeneutical reading, which seeks to struggle against cultural, spatial, and temporal distance to make one's own, what was initially alien belongs to everyone.