Editing Hermeneutics (section)

{{Short description|Theory and methodology of text interpretation}}
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'''Hermeneutics''' ({{IPAc-en|h|ɜːr|m|ə|ˈ|nj|uː|t|ɪ|k|s}})<ref>[https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/hermeneutics "hermeneutics"]. ''[[Collins English Dictionary]]''.</ref> is the theory and [[methodology]] of interpretation,<ref name="ahd">{{Cite web|url=https://www.ahdictionary.com/word/search.html?q=hermeneutics|title=The American Heritage Dictionary entry: hermeneutics|publisher=Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company|website=www.ahdictionary.com}}</ref><ref name="mw">{{Cite web|url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hermeneutics|title=Definition of HERMENEUTICS|website=[[Merriam-Webster|www.merriam-webster.com]]|date=December 2023 }}</ref> especially the interpretation of [[Biblical hermeneutics|biblical texts]], [[wisdom literature]], and [[Philosophy|philosophical texts]].<ref>{{cite book |title=The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy |url=https://archive.org/details/cambridgediction00audi |url-access=limited |last= Audi|first=Robert |authorlink=Robert Audi|edition= 2nd |year=1999 |publisher=[[Cambridge University Press]] |location=Cambridge |isbn=978-0521637220 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/cambridgediction00audi/page/n409 377]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Dictionary of Philosophy and Religion|last=Reese |first=William L. |year=1980 |publisher=Harvester Press |location=Sussex |isbn=978-0855271473 |page= 221}}</ref> As necessary, hermeneutics may include the art of understanding and communication.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=j4xmCgAAQBAJ&q=hermeneutics|title=Hermeneutics: A Very Short Introduction|last=Zimmermann|first=Jens|date=2015|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780199685356|pages=2|language=en}}</ref>

[[#Modern hermeneutics|Modern hermeneutics]] includes both verbal and non-verbal communication,<ref name="Routledge">''The Routledge Companion to Philosophy in Organization Studies'', Routledge, 2015, [https://books.google.com/books?id=mpvhCgAAQBAJ&newbks=1&newbks_redir=0&printsec=frontcover&pg=PA113&hl=cs&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false p. 113].</ref><ref name="JMN">Joann McNamara, ''From Dance to Text and Back to Dance: A Hermeneutics of Dance Interpretive Discourse'', PhD thesis, Texas Woman's University, 1994.</ref> as well as [[semiotics]], [[presupposition]]s, and pre-understandings. Hermeneutics has been broadly applied in the [[humanities]], especially in law, history and theology.

Hermeneutics was initially applied to the interpretation, or [[exegesis]], of [[Religious texts|scripture]], and has been later broadened to questions of general interpretation.<ref name=":0">{{Cite book|title=Introduction to Philosophical Hermeneutics|last=Grondin|first=Jean|publisher=Yale University Press|year=1994|isbn=978-0-300-05969-4}} p. 2</ref> The terms ''hermeneutics'' and ''exegesis'' are sometimes used interchangeably. Hermeneutics is a wider discipline which includes written, verbal, and nonverbal<ref name="Routledge" /><ref name="JMN" /> communication. Exegesis focuses primarily upon the word and grammar of [[text (literary theory)|texts]].

Hermeneutic, as a [[count noun]] in the singular, refers to some particular method of interpretation (see, in contrast, [[double hermeneutic]]).