CRITICAL THEORY
HERMENEUTICS
What is it? Hermeneutics is the art of interpreting texts, the term hermeneutics refers to Greek mythology, that is, to Hermes, the messenger of the gods, to whom is attributed the creation of that which serves understanding among human beings: language and writing. The word hermeneutics also alludes to the art of understanding. Philosophers: Wilhelm Dilthey (1833 - 1911), a Philosophers, historian, sociologist, psychologist and hermeneutics scholar, focused on the study of interpretations and meaning of texts of German origin. Friedrich Scheleiermacher (1967) criticized hermeneutics for its unity and proposed a series of basic principles for interpretation. Martin Heidegger (1974) affirms that hermeneutics is not a method that can be designed, he also maintains that the human being is an interpretative being. Theorists: Hans-Georg Gadamer (1984) thinks that we will never have an objective knowledge of the meaning of a text or of anything else. ...
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