Education and the Formative Power of Hermeneutic Practice

Abstract

This paper seeks to clarify the educational role and effects of hermeneutic practice. The argument is that far from becoming irrelevant to the ever changing needs of the social economy, the humanities and especially the hermeneutic practices on which they depend, are vital to intensifying those processes of social and cultural renewal upon which the well-being of a community depends.

Keywords

• hermeneutics
• interpretation
• incommensurability
• subject-matters
• practice
• education