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Schleiermacher's Hermeneutic and Its Critics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 October 2008

Richard L. Corliss
Richard L. Corliss
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Department of Philosophy, St Cloud State University, St Cloud, Minnesota 56301
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The critics of Schleiermacher's hermeneutic are legion and its defenders few – due, to a great extent, to the popularity of Gadamer's Truth and Method and its attack on Schleiermacher. I believe that the critics of Schleiermacher have not understood him very well and the failure of his hermeneutics to gain very much respect lies, at least partially, to a lack of understanding of what he had to say. Besides, if we look at contemporary scholars who focus on the study of language and how it functions we will find that they often have views very much like those found in Schleiermacher's discussion of hermeneutics.

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Research Article
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Religious Studies , Volume 29 , Issue 3 , September 1993 , pp. 363 - 379
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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