Article: The hermeneutic center.

Having taught graduate courses in both Western and Eastern hermeneutics for a couple of years, it struck me that (contemporary) Western hermeneutics seems to focus (exclusively) on the "hermeneutic circle," while (traditional) Eastern hermeneutics (mainly) emphasizes the "center."

Since Heidegger, the figure of the "hermeneutic circle" has found wide acceptance among students of philosophy and religion who consider hermeneutics the way to finding humanly meaningful truth. Hans Georg Gadamer, especially, through his extensive arguments for the indispensability of "Vorurteil" (pre-judgment, culturally and historically conditioned premise), has convinced many of the ...

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