Already familiar with earlier hermeneutic thinking, Heidegger redeployed hermeneutics to a very different purpose and within a very different frame.
And the chat may be as much about hermeneutics as political tactics, about Popper or Hayek as Khomeini or Hobbes.The philosopher who inspires the reformists more than any other is probably Abdolkarim Soroush.
Philosophy is, in its essence, hermeneutics.
Following his general hermeneutics, the key to an architectural object's meaning is original design intent.
Dilthey's reflections on history and hermeneutics influenced thinkers in the twentieth century, especially Ortega, Heidegger, Gadamer and Ricoeur.
Whereas the early prize-essay on Schleiermacher's hermeneutics had been more focused on textual and theological interpretation, the new essay makes hermeneutics a connecting link between philosophy and history.
Coming from a very different tradition, Giambattista Vico, the author of the Scienza nuova (1725), is another central figure in the development of early modern hermeneutics.
Yet the (Kantian) question of legitimacy remains at the center of his hermeneutics.
By establishing philology as a methodological discipline reflecting both the shared, cultural framework and the dimension of individuality, Wolf came to mark his place as one of the most important precursors of romantic hermeneutics.
With the emergence of German romanticism and idealism the status of hermeneutics changes.
Preoccupied respectively with subjective piety, with the new science of man, and with the historical aspects of understanding, Luther, Vico, and Spinoza all shaped and gave direction to modern hermeneutics.
