Single Idea 20925

[catalogued under 1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 3. Hermeneutics]

Full Idea

Derrida worried that hermeneutics blunts the disruptive power of truth by forcing it conform to the interpreter's mental horizon.

Gist of Idea

Hermeneutics blunts truth, by conforming it to the interpreter

Source

report of Jacques Derrida (works [1990]) by Jens Zimmermann - Hermeneutics: a very short introduction 3 'The heart'

Book Reference

Zimmerman,Jens: 'Hermeneutics: very short introduction' [OUP 2015], p.48


A Reaction

Good heavens - I agree with Derrida. Very French, though, to see the value of truth in its disruptiveness. I tend to find the truth reassuring, but then I'm English.