Comhroinn Fuaime

4 Elements of a Theory of Hermeneutic Experience 1 THE ELEVATION OF THE HISTORICITY OF UNDERSTANDING TO THE STATUS OF A HERMENEUTIC PRINCIPLE (A) THE HERMENEUTIC CIRCLE AND THE PROBLEM OF PREJUDICES (i) Heidegger's Disclosure of the Fore-Structure of Understanding Heidegger entered into the problem…

4 Elements of a Theory of Hermeneutic Experience 1 THE ELEVATION OF THE HISTORICITY OF UNDERSTANDING TO THE STATUS OF A HERMENEUTIC PRINCIPLE (A) THE HERMENEUTIC CIRCLE AND THE PROBLEM OF PREJUDICES (i) Heidegger's Disclosure of the Fore-Structure of Understanding Heidegger entered into the problems of historical hermeneutics and critique only in order to explicate the fore-structure of understanding for the purposes of ontology.1 Our question, by contrast, is how hermeneutics, once freed from t