Summary
Gustav Špet: Hermeneutics and its problems
my works on the methodology of history have gathered a lot of material that I would not like to immediately include in the content of the corresponding research in order to avoid their excessive bulkiness and colorfulness. I thought that part of that material, which is related to the history of hermeneutics as a scientific discipline, would be useful to publish in the form of a monograph offered here, bearing in mind that, on the one hand, I rely on that material in the third volume of my research on the methodology of history that I am preparing, and on the other hand, harboring the hope that the offered book can be interesting and useful to historians, philologists and historians of literature.
I did not intend to provide a systematic history questions; I repeat, this work consists of the remains of material prepared for other goals, where the excursion into the field of hermeneutics was only an auxiliary tool. I am not pursuing the tasks of history so much as the task of clarifying the gradual emergence and development of basic questions in hermeneutics - from their empirical-practical formulas to their principled and philosophical foundations. When I separated the collected material into a separate paper, my task was only to shed light on the philosophical and methodological significance of hermeneutic procedures and their role in the development of the science of words, to show what perspectives open up for philosophy when delving into the subject in principle, leaving the possibility that in the aforementioned third volume of research, dedicated to the principles of historical knowledge, the consequences that arise.
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