Romanticism, Hermeneutics and the Crisis of the Human Sciences

ISBN-13: 9781138620452 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 251 str.

Scott Masson

Opis

This study begins by surveying the field of modern hermeneutics. Noting its repeated crises of self-legitimisation, it traces these to circular beliefs bequeathed by Romanticism that human nature is self-begetting, and can thus be known intimately and autonomously.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction - Two worlds' words; Modern hermeneutics: the development of universal relativity by understanding meaning in terms of truth; Hannah Arendt's study of the human condition; Wordsworth's understanding of nature in the 'Preface to Lyrical Ballads' (1802) and the hermeneutic significance of feeling; Shelley's organic theology in Mont Blanc; Keats's eternal urn; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.

O autorze

Dr. Scott Masson is an Associate Professor of English Literature at Tyndale University College in Toronto, Canada.