Understanding comprehension is an introduction to hermeneutics

Author's name: Adel Mustafa Publisher: Ru'ya for Publishing and Distribution Year of publication: 2007 Literary classification: Philosophy and Thought Brief about the book: This book traces the concept of the term hermeneutics (or interpretation of texts) from its cradle, where it was used in ancient Greek, starting with Plato, passing through the efforts of Deltay – Husserl – Heidegger – and ending with its resurgence through the efforts of Gadamer – Habermas – Paul Ricoeur. The importance of this book lies in it providing a philosophical historical summary of a term that has become widely discussed, and its application to texts in the humanities has become inevitable; this is before the interpretive theory's interest in its development from Schleiermacher to Gadamer focused on crossing the historical and cultural gap between the interpreter and the text, until the emergence of the German sociologist Jürgen Habermas and the French Paul Ricoeur, who paved a new way for hermeneutics both in theory and application. After drawing inspiration from Marxist philosophy alongside social science methods, making critique an end in itself.