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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