Single Idea 20934

[catalogued under 1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 3. Hermeneutics]

Full Idea

Derrida described the hermeneutic impulse to understand another as a form of violence that seeks to overcome the other's particularity and unique difference.

Gist of Idea

Hermeneutics is hostile, trying to overcome the other person's difference

Source

report of Jacques Derrida (works [1990]) by Jens Zimmermann - Hermeneutics: a very short introduction App 'Derrida'

Book Reference

Zimmerman,Jens: 'Hermeneutics: very short introduction' [OUP 2015], p.137


A Reaction

I'm not sure about 'violence', but Derrida was on to somethng here. The 'hermeneutic circle' sounds like a creepy process of absorption, where the original writer disappears in a whirlpool of interpretation.

Related Idea

Idea 20927 The hermeneutic circle is between the reader's self-understanding, and the world of the text [Zimmermann,J]