From Interpretation to Incarnation: Rediscovery of Meaning with Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

The text is not out there to be interpreted. It is embodied.

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The assumption that meaning can be arrived at through an “objective” analysis of the text has been permeating hermeneutics for over 100 years. It has been called the hermeneutics of meaning and interpretation. It is believed that meaning is an objective “thing” out there, and the process of interpretation is the analysis of the objectively…