Hermeneutics

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Hermeneutics

The Hermeneutics is an intellectual tradition and an important term in the philosophy. Hermeneutics says that symbolic concepts are the foundation of building up the social-historical world. According to the Hermeneutics the world is constructed by the language and the actions of individuals. These symbolic concepts, which results out of the language and actions, get interpreted by other people in different ways. (Cloke, Philo and Sadler (1991). The origin of the Hermeneutics lies at the early study to language, especially in the translation of the bible and other religious texts.

The circle of the hermeneutics stands for the everlasting process of interpretation of symbolic concepts. It is a creative and progressive process which will never come to an end.

The hermeneutics is seen as a study of interpretation and meaning. (Johnston, Gregory, Pratt, Watts, 2000) On the field of social-geography the term 'hermeneutics' is been used as the study to the relation between humans and place. Hereby the human experiences in his social and spatial environment is been studied (Cloke, Philo and Sadler (1991), p. 90).

Sources

• Cloke, P., Philo, Ch. and Sadler, D. , Approaching Human Geography (Stage, Londen 1991)

• Johnston, R.J., Gregory, D., Pratt, G. Watts, M., The dictionary of Human Geography ( Blackwell Publishing, Oxford 4th edition 2000)

See also

Hermeneutiek [1]