Full Idea
Derrida described the hermeneutic impulse to understand another as a form of violence that seeks to overcome the other's particularity and unique difference.
Gist of Idea
Hermeneutics is hostile, trying to overcome the other person's difference
Source
report of Jacques Derrida (works [1990]) by Jens Zimmermann - Hermeneutics: a very short introduction App 'Derrida'
Book Reference
Zimmerman,Jens: 'Hermeneutics: very short introduction' [OUP 2015], p.137
A Reaction
I'm not sure about 'violence', but Derrida was on to somethng here. The 'hermeneutic circle' sounds like a creepy process of absorption, where the original writer disappears in a whirlpool of interpretation.
Related Idea
Idea 20927 The hermeneutic circle is between the reader's self-understanding, and the world of the text [Zimmermann,J]