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rationalized
society; it is rather a theory that tries to grasp the meaning of the
transformation (of the idea) of Being that has been produced as a consequence
of the techno-scientific rationalization of our world.10
It
should only be necessary here to say a few words about a “deconstructive”
hermeneutics as a critical strategy of interpretation by way of conclusion. That
the backward-looking emphasis in hermeneutics can conceivably be transformed
within a more future-oriented practice is suggested by Derrid... more ...
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page221from Building Ideas
The
instability of meaning in Ricoeur’s notion of conflict was a theme in the more
recent work of the Italian philosopher, Gianni Vattimo. Vattimo, who was also a
student of Gadamer’s, developed his own version of the plurality that is characteristic
of postmodernist thinking. Just as Heidegger and, later, Derrida had developed
a critique of Western philosophy based on the misguided search for foundations
as the ultimate ground for absolute knowledge, Vattimo likewise characterized
the current state of postmodernism in philosophy as a period of “post-foundationalism”
or, more memorably, “weak thought”. This situation lends significance to a
range of previously marginalized discourses, such as... more ...
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page220from Building Ideas
renounce the link between the destiny of
hermeneutics and the purely psychological notion of the transference into
another mental life; the text must be unfolded, no longer towards the author,
but towards its immanent sense and towards the world which it opens up and
discloses.9
The “Conflict” of Interpretations
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page219from Building Ideas
notion of language as the “house of being”.
He develops the idea of language as the privileged vehicle of cultural
tradition and focuses in particular on writing as the ultimate conduit of
historical truths:
Nothing
is so purely the trace of the mind as writing, but nothing is so dependent on
the understanding mind either. In deciphering and interpreting it, a miracle
takes place: the transformation of something alien and dead into total
contemporaneity and familiarity. This is like nothing else that comes down to
us from the past. … Buildings , to... more ...
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