The Disciplines of Interpretation: Lessing, Herder, Schlegel and Hermeneutics in Germany, 1750-1800 (European Cultures : Studies in Literature and a)

The changes brought about by the World Wide Web and the explosion of electronic media have called into question many of the assumptions on which national bibliographies have been founded. The need was growing of a route map to navigate through unchartes territories. After a preparation period of several years, IFLA ́s Bibliography Section endorsed this large set of guidelines. They seek to help national bibliographic agencies improve their bibliographic services. Many examples and references are included. Preface Chapter 1 Writing the Emergence of Hermeneutics Chapter 2 Semiotic Interpretation 1. The Sign and Discourse 2. Semiotic Interpretation-Theory 3. The Invisible Author and the Transparent Book 4. Knowledge and Scholarly Disciplines in the German Enlightenment 5. Enlightenment Interpretation vs. Critical Hermeneutics Chapter 3 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing: The Critical Breakthrough 1. The Critical Strategy of the Fragmentenstreit 2. The Structure of Dialogue in Lessing's Ernst und Falk 3. Transcription, or the Interpretation of Antiquity 4. Death - The Body - Writing: Rhetorical Circumvention a. The Semiotics of Art and Poetry b. The Body c. Writing Chapter 4 The Parable as Performance: Interpretation, Cultural Transmission, and Political Strategy in Lessing's "Nathan der Weise" 1. The Politics of Interpretation 2. Losing Ground, or Automatic vs. Manual Transmission 3. An Ethics of Reading: The Moral is the Political 4. Iridescent Structure: The Form of the Parable 5. Hermeneutic Complicity 6. Critical Realism and its Discontents Chapter 5 Towards a Textual Hermeneutic in the Writing of Johann Gottfried Herder 1. Structure and Reflexivity: Language as Text 2. Small Science a. Enunciating the Difference: The Critique of Analysis in Herder's Versuch über das Seyn (1764) b. From Metaphysics to Pragmatism: Wie die Philosophie zum Besten des Volkes allgemeiner und nützlicher werden kann (1765) c. From Metaphysical Analysis to Linguistic Invention 3. The Self and the Other: The Structure of the Interpretive Subject 4. Interpretive Reading and the Hermeneutics of Texts Chapter 6 Discourse-Analytical Remarks on Herder's Concept of Science 1. Herder's Critique of Wissenschaß 2. The Asymmetrical Influence of Reciprocity Excursion Nine Theses on Johann Gottfried Herder Chapter 7 The Emergence of Philological Discourse in the German States 1770-1810 1. The Political Dimensions of Language Theory around 1770 2. The Institution of Philology: Organization, Practice, and Politics of the Göttingen Seminar under Heyne 3. The Transformation of Philology Chapter 8 Friedrich Schlegel's Hermeneutic Philology and the Eclipse of Aesthetic Culture 1. Difference and Modernity 2. The "Example," or Historicizing Kant 3. Towards a Hermeneutic Philology: "Zur Philologie I & II" (1797) a. The Rulership of Philosophical Discourse and the Death of Philology b. The Interdependence of Grammar, Criticism, and Hermeneutics c. Philological-Hermeneutic Criticism d. Cyclical Reading and Study e. Philology as Polyhistory and En-cyclo-pedia: The Multiplicity of Philological Knowledges 4. Philology and the Eclipse of the Aesthetic Conclusion On Incomprehensibility Bibliography Index The Disciplines of Interpretation: Lessing, Herder, Schlegel and Hermeneutics in Germany, 1750-1800 (European Cultures : Studies in Literature and a)