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Schleiermachers hermeneutische Umdeutung einer Bemerkung Kants

Zimmermann, Stephan

Archiv für Begriffsgeschichte, Bd. 65 (2023), Iss. 1: S. 128–144

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Zimmermann, Stephan

Abstract

In his lectures, talks and writings on hermeneutics, Schleiermacher discusses the various aspects and methods of an artful, i. e., scientifically pursued, practice of understanding. He repeatedly expresses the goal of such understanding with a handy formula which takes up a remark in Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason: to «understand the utterance at first just as well and then better than its author.” This formula, which demands an understanding superior to that of the author of an utterance, is programmatic for Schleiermacher’s hermeneutics. However, he subjects Kant’s remark to a decisive reinterpretation. This paper examines the means and outcome of this reinterpretation.