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- Title
Depicting Identity Outside the Frame of Textualism.
- Authors
ASĂVOAIE, Cristiana-Maria
- Abstract
Within the hermeneutic field, textualism broadly refers to the priority offered to texts as hermeneutical objects. Authors such as Shaun Gallagher, on the one hand, contend that the aforesaid preference defines a paradigm within which comprehension and interpretation are conceived as the reading of a text. A short review of the history of hermeneutics reveals how explanation and understanding became disjointed as a consequence of trying to enlarge hermeneutics' scope while keeping the interpretation of a text as its epitome. The main downside of textualism, from Gallagher's point of view, is that it encumbers the apprehension of the self-reflective and transformative nature of understanding. From a different perspective, the pragmatist remarks of Richard Rorty concerning textualism help grasping it as a philosophical approach in a more extensive frame of reference, the American philosopher outlining its role in a general cultural context. He provides constructive observations regarding the ways in which textualism might be misunderstood, concurrently bringing to attention its strengths. On this background, the present article attempts to discern between a concept of identity within textualism and one that strives to avoid the faults or weaknesses entailed by this paradigm.
- Subjects
TEXTUALISM (Legal interpretation); HERMENEUTICS; CULTURAL identity
- Publication
Hermeneia: Journal of Hermeneutics, Art Theory & Criticism, 2018, Issue 21, p217
- ISSN
1453-9047
- Publication type
Article