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About this book
Interpretation is crucial. Indeed, it is the very concept that may protect the humanities from the loss of their specific character. It may also stop the tendency to take the practices and methods of natural sciences as models, for example by focusing on quantitative aspects (when sociology or philosophy use criteria from the neurosciences) or by employing cognitivism instead of an historical approach. The concept of interpretation allows us to reflect on the historical and social aspects of any research. This can only be understood if we take into account the problem of the sense and meaning of individual and social conduct, by analysing the intentions of historical agents. Human facts do not speak for themselves. They need to be interpreted, understood, and analysed with instruments that are aware of the profound complexity of human events (both individual and social). From the ancient Mediterranean world through medieval Europe to contemporary India case studies focus on original developments, new techniques and new fields of, but also important reflections on, the interpretation of texts, rituals and major cultural "facts".
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Table of contents
- Inhalt
- acknowledgements
- Carlo Altini, Philippe Hoffmann, Jörg Rüpke: Introduction
- Emanuele Stolfi: Interpretatio e auctoritas. Diritto e potere a Roma fra tarda repubblica ed età dei Severi
- Harry O. Maier: Images, Rite, text and the apostle Paul
- Jörg Rüpke: Writing the First Christian Commentary on a Biblical Book in ancient Rome: hippolytus
- Adrien Lecerf: l’allégorie physique au tournant du IVe siècle après J.-C. Quelques remarques
- Ghislain Casas: Quid sit hierarchia? Mésinterprétation d’un concept dionysien
- Mohammad Ali Amir-Moezzi: Icône et contemplation. Entre l’art populaire et le soufisme dans le shi’isme imamite (aspects de l’imamologie duodécimaine XI)
- Elisabeth Boncour: la reprise eckhartienne de quelques principes exégétiques origéniens
- Francesco Marchesi: Pratica e uso della storia in niccolò Machiavelli
- Dominik Fugger: Comme un texte ancien. Johann Conrad Dannhauer et l’interprétation des rituels dans la première modernité
- Christian Jambet: le Logos/Intellect selon l’herméneutique philosophique dans l’islam iranien (XVIIe siècle)
- Laura Nicolì: Sovrani, allegorie, segni. Interpretare gli dèi nel Settecento
- Emma Nanetti: Vera narratio. Sull’interpretazione vichiana del mito
- Vera Höke: „Other Sheep I have“. Keshab Chandra Sen und der „asiatische“ Jesus
- Vincent Delecroix: l’interprétation et l’idée de «raison herméneutique»
- Silvana Borutti: Translation and Interpretation
- Martin Fuchs: «Hermeneutik des Neuen». Rotture e innovazioni nell’interpretazione religiosa. Riflessioni dalla storia religiosa indiana: il caso della bhakti
- Carlo Altini: Kabbalah contra Philosophy. Politics, Religion and hermeneutics in Gershom Scholem and leo Strauss
- Antje Linkenbach: Travelling Deities. Ritual, territory and authority in the Central himalayas (India). The Hermeneutics of Ethnographic Research
- Zu den Autoren