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Author Leventhal, Robert S

Title The Disciplines of Interpretation : Lessing, Herder, Schlegel and Hermeneutics in Germany 1750-1800
Published Berlin : De Gruyter, 1994

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Description 1 online resource (364 pages)
Series European Cultures ; v. 5
European cultures.
Contents Preface; Chapter 1 Writing the Emergence of Hermeneutics; Chapter 2 Semiotic Interpretation; 1. The Sign and Discourse; 2. Semiotic Interpretation-Theory; 3. The Invisible Author and the Transparent Book; 4. Knowledge and Scholarly Disciplines in the German Enlightenment; 5. Enlightenment Interpretation vs. Critical Hermeneutics; Chapter 3 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: The Critical Breakthrough; 1. The Critical Strategy of the Fragmentenstreit; 2. The Structure of Dialogue in Lessing's Ernst und Falk; 3. Transcription, or the Interpretation of Antiquity
4. Death -- The Body -- Writing: Rhetorical Circumventiona. The Semiotics of Art and Poetry; b. The Body; c. Writing; Chapter 4 The Parable as Performance: Interpretation, Cultural Transmission, and Political Strategy in Lessing's ""Nathan der Weise""; 1. The Politics of Interpretation; 2. Losing Ground, or Automatic vs. Manual Transmission; 3. An Ethics of Reading: The Moral is the Political; 4. Iridescent Structure: The Form of the Parable; 5. Hermeneutic Complicity; 6. Critical Realism and its Discontents; Chapter 5 Towards a Textual Hermeneutic in the Writing of Johann Gottfried Herder
1. Structure and Reflexivity: Language as Text2. Small Science; a. Enunciating the Difference: The Critique of Analysis in Herder's Versuch über das Seyn (1764); b. From Metaphysics to Pragmatism: Wie die Philosophie zum Besten des Volkes allgemeiner und nützlicher werden kann (1765); c. From Metaphysical Analysis to Linguistic Invention; 3. The Self and the Other: The Structure of the Interpretive Subject; 4. Interpretive Reading and the Hermeneutics of Texts; Chapter 6 Discourse-Analytical Remarks on Herder's Concept of Science; 1. Herder's Critique of Wissenschaß
2. The Asymmetrical Influence of ReciprocityExcursion Nine Theses on Johann Gottfried Herder; Chapter 7 The Emergence of Philological Discourse in the German States 1770-1810; 1. The Political Dimensions of Language Theory around 1770; 2. The Institution of Philology: Organization, Practice, and Politics of the Göttingen Seminar under Heyne; 3. The Transformation of Philology; Chapter 8 Friedrich Schlegel's Hermeneutic Philology and the Eclipse of Aesthetic Culture; 1. Difference and Modernity; 2. The ""Example, "" or Historicizing Kant
3. Towards a Hermeneutic Philology: ""Zur Philologie I & II"" (1797)a. The Rulership of Philosophical Discourse and the Death of Philology; b. The Interdependence of Grammar, Criticism, and Hermeneutics; c. Philological-Hermeneutic Criticism; d. Cyclical Reading and Study; e. Philology as Polyhistory and En-cyclo-pedia: The Multiplicity of Philological Knowledges; 4. Philology and the Eclipse of the Aesthetic; Conclusion On Incomprehensibility; Bibliography; Index
Summary The Disciplines of Interpretation: Lessing, Herder, Schlegel and Hermeneutics in Germany, 1750-1800 (European Cultures : Studies in Literature and a)
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Subject Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781 -- Criticism and interpretation
Herder, Johann Gottfried, 1744-1803 -- Criticism and interpretation
Schlegel, Friedrich von, 1772-1829 -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Herder, Johann Gottfried, 1744-1803. fast (OCoLC)fst00047505
Lessing, Gotthold Ephraim, 1729-1781. fast (OCoLC)fst00047306
Schlegel, Friedrich von, 1772-1829. fast (OCoLC)fst00001191
Subject Criticism -- Germany -- History -- 18th century
Semiotics and literature.
Discourse analysis, Literary.
Philology -- History -- 18th century
literary criticism.
Criticism.
Discourse analysis, Literary.
Philology.
Semiotics and literature.
Germany.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783110880205
3110880202