PHI 3570 - Hermeneutics

Credits: 3

Prerequisite(s): PHI 3020 is strongly recommended

Description: Hermeneutics is the study of the principles of interpretation, and it examines how human beings experience the world as intelligible. As a practice, hermeneutics is ancient; as a modern discipline, it is first codified in the nineteenth century and beyond. This course poses and assesses fundamental questions regarding the conditions of human understanding, particularly the complex relationship of writer, text, and reader in the interpretive process.