The Hermeneutics Reader Quotes

“In interpretation, understanding does not become something different. It becomes itself. Such interpretation is grounded existentially in understanding; the latter does not arise from the former. Nor is interpretation the acquiring of information about what is understood; it is rather the working-out of possibilities projected in understanding.”
― Kurt Mueller-Vollmer, Hermeneutics Reader: Texts of the German Tradition from the Enlightenment to the Present

“The technical term for this dialectical mediation of “understanding” and “explaining” is “critique of ideology.” As a “psychoanalysis” of human social history and as a “psychotherapy” for the current crisis of human action, it appears to me to represent the only meaningful logical foundation and moral justification for the objectively explanatory sciences of man.34”
― Kurt Mueller-Vollmer, Hermeneutics Reader: Texts of the German Tradition from the Enlightenment to the Present