{"id":8125,"date":"2019-05-22T16:04:18","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/hermeneutics_-and_phenomenology\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:04:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:04:18","slug":"hermeneutics_-and_phenomenology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/hermeneutics_-and_phenomenology\/","title":{"rendered":"Hermeneutics (and phenomenology)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hermeneutics is a theory and methodology of interpretation that emerged from German theology and literature referring to the process through which people interpret classic written texts (see Packer, 1985). &nbsp;Namedafter Hermes, who was messenger of the Greek gods, interpreting their messagesfor mortals.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A hermeneutic interpretation requires one to understand and sympathize with the point-of-view of another. &nbsp;An influential person in philosophical hermeneutics was <a href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/ricoeur\/\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/ricoeur\/&amp;target=_self\" style=\"font-size: 13px;\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Paul Ricoeur<\/a> (1913-2005) with his theory of interpreting human action. &nbsp;In his book <span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">Hermeneutics and the human sciences<\/span>: <span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">essays on language, action and interpretation<\/span> (1981), he combined hermeneutics with phenomenology. &nbsp; Phenomenology is a branch of philosophy based on intuitive experience of phenomena, and on the premise that reality consists of objects and events as consciously perceived by conscious beings. &nbsp;An intellectual movement based on this combination, starting around 1905, can be found in the writings of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.husserlpage.com\/\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.husserlpage.com\/&amp;target=_self\" style=\"font-size: 13px;\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Edmund Husserl<\/a> (1859-1938) and later in those of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blupete.com\/Literature\/Biographies\/Philosophy\/Sartre.htm\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.blupete.com\/Literature\/Biographies\/Philosophy\/Sartre.htm&amp;target=_self\" style=\"font-size: 13px;\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jean-Paul Sartre<\/a> (1905-1980) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.egs.edu\/library\/maurice-merleau-ponty\/biography\/\" class=\"cc-route-enabled\" data-editable-link=\"http:\/\/www.egs.edu\/library\/maurice-merleau-ponty\/biography\/&amp;target=_self\" style=\"font-size: 13px;\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maurice Merleau-Ponty<\/a> (1908-1961). &nbsp;What they all stressed was the necessity of studying the structures of consciousness as experienced by the first-person point-of-view. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"consciousness\">Consciousness<\/a>, <a href=\"discourse_analysis\">Discourse analysis<\/a>, <a href=\"ethnography\">Ethnography<\/a>, <a href=\"ontology\">Ontology<\/a>, <a href=\"pedagogy\">Pedagogy<\/a>, <a href=\"qualitative_research\">Qualitative research<\/a>, <a href=\"solipsism\">Solipsism<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Packer,M. J. (1985). Hermeneutic inquiry in the study of human conduct. <span class=\"\" style=\"font-style: italic;\">AmericanPsychologist, 40<\/span>, 1081-1093.&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hermeneutics is a theory and methodology of interpretation that emerged from German theology and literature referring to the process through which people interpret classic written texts (see Packer, 1985). &nbsp;Namedafter Hermes, who was messenger of the Greek gods, interpreting their messagesfor mortals.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;A hermeneutic interpretation requires one to understand and sympathize with the point-of-view of another. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/hermeneutics_-and_phenomenology\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Hermeneutics (and phenomenology)&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}