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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 Ref
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.