Starting from the often-used metaphor of the “horizon of experience” this article discusses three different types of intercultural hermeneutics, which respectively conceive hermeneutic interpretation as a widening of horizons, a fusion of horizons, and a dissemination of horizons. It is argued that these subsequent stages in the history of hermeneutics have their origin in—but are not fully res...

Originally, hermeneutics was the interpretation of important texts. In 19th century, transformed into a science about meaning and all expressions. 20th Martin Heidegger radicalized hermeneutics, indicating that understanding (the essence hermeneutics) is not technical or intellectual operation, but way being. The central point reference in article hermeneutic philosophy Hans-Georg Gadamer Paul ...

In the field of information systems (IS), ‘information’ is probably the most important and fundamental notion. And yet, existing studies of it seem inadequate and lacking of sufficient depth, and further work is therefore desperately in need. We adopt Hermeneutics to approach the essence of information. We describe how Hermeneutics might enable us to look at the mechanism whereby information is...

This paper is targeted primarily at doctoral students and others considering hermeneutics as a research strategy. Research using hermeneutics was carried out with occupational therapy educators and clinicians in Australia, New Zealand, Canada, and the UK. A total of 53 participants engaged in focus groups and individual interviews over a one-year. The paper explores hermeneutics as a credible, ...

The foregoing quote by Haddon Robinson, a preacher and professor of preaching, underscores the necessary relationship between hermeneutics and homiletics. It is a relationship also recognized by others outside the area of sermon preparation and delivery. For instance, David Dockery comments: “Our understanding of hermeneutics, or the task of interpretation, focuses on discovering the historical...

This essay argues that a negative hermeneutics, i.e., hermeneutics takes its starting point from the experience of gaps, failures, and limits, is suitable lens for study mysticism. It uses concept travail negative, which focuses on dynamics continuous ‘unsaying’ ‘subverting’ traditional expressions faith religious practice, to explore connection between aspects practical theoretical negativity ...

Discussions of the theoretical foundations of artiicial intelligence increasingly refer to hermeneutics, a branch of continental European philosophy concerned with human understanding and the interpretation of written texts. Dreyfus and Wino-grad draw heavily on hermeneutics to question the feasibility of AI and cognitive science. But, hermeneutics also ooers insights that may contribute to the...

after a long march of history of developments, hermeneutics, the theory of text interpretation, totally focused on understanding, has nowadays been wider scope that eventually includes artworks. hermeneutics refers to different approaches due to its theoretical versatility and associated applied paradigms including ricoeur’s textual hermeneutics. the latter may be best described as text-oriente...

This paper is a preliminary activity of the DESIS Digital Social Innovation Research Cluster, with the purpose to elaborate the cases of the Social Innovation index, from the projects NT100 and digitaleurope.eu, by framing the analysis with the lens of design. We approach the analysis by information visualization methods and data manipulation tools, and in the paper we present process and resul...

Empirical ethics is based upon the idea that empirical research can be used to develop new and better ethical theories. Empirical research can elucidate the relevance of ethical issues in daily life, and show which problems require normative analysis. It can also give insight into the considerations of practitioners, which might be morally relevant because they embody experience. In the literat...