Some Thoughts on Where We Go From Here - A Hermeneutical Proposal
نام نخستين پديدآور
Paul Hedges
وضعیت نشر و پخش و غیره
محل نشرو پخش و غیره
Leiden
نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره
Brill
یادداشتهای مربوط به خلاصه یا چکیده
متن يادداشت
This paper overviews contemporary debates on the deconstruction / historization of the category 'religion'. It argues that a hard deconstruction which seeks to suggest the term is an empty signifier and analytically useless is unfounded philosophically and empirically. However, a soft deconstruction which accepts the problems of employing the term, especially as found in the World Religions Paradigm, but suggests that 'religion' remains a useful tool to describe a specific social reality, is well founded. The article extends current debates by showing how philosophical hermeneutics, especially as exemplified by Hans-Georg Gadamer's work, supports the soft deconstructive approach and further shows the conceptual inadequacy of hard deconstruction. This paper overviews contemporary debates on the deconstruction / historization of the category 'religion'. It argues that a hard deconstruction which seeks to suggest the term is an empty signifier and analytically useless is unfounded philosophically and empirically. However, a soft deconstruction which accepts the problems of employing the term, especially as found in the World Religions Paradigm, but suggests that 'religion' remains a useful tool to describe a specific social reality, is well founded. The article extends current debates by showing how philosophical hermeneutics, especially as exemplified by Hans-Georg Gadamer's work, supports the soft deconstructive approach and further shows the conceptual inadequacy of hard deconstruction.
مجموعه
تاريخ نشر
2018
توصيف ظاهري
5-24
عنوان
Exchange
شماره جلد
47/1
شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها
1572-543X
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اصطلاح موضوعی
deconstruction
اصطلاح موضوعی
epistemology
اصطلاح موضوعی
Gadamer
اصطلاح موضوعی
hermeneutics
اصطلاح موضوعی
religion
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