"But is it possible to ever step out of our own skin?" Clara countered. "If hermeneutics is only a method —a set of rules—we miss the 'truth' that happens when a text actually speaks to our present situation. Method can explain the how , but it can't capture the why ."
One autumn afternoon, a new doctoral candidate named Clara sat in his seminar. She carried a weathered copy of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s Truth and Method , a cornerstone of that Elias regarded as dangerously sentimental. Contemporary Hermeneutics. Hermeneutics as Meth...
Clara looked up, her eyes bright. "I found something else. I found that this poem changes depending on whether I read it in this cold library or at home by the fire. The 'method' tells me the syntax is fractured. But the 'hermeneutic circle' tells me that my own grief over my father’s passing is what finally makes the poem’s silence audible." "But is it possible to ever step out of our own skin
"Have you found the 'objective' authorial intent yet?" Elias asked, a rare hint of irony in his voice. She carried a weathered copy of Hans-Georg Gadamer’s