Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 17:23:13 +0100 From: Henk van Tuijl <Henk.van.Tuijl-AT-net.HCC.nl> Subject: Re: estimation and thinking Allen Scult wrote: > I assume the liberal attitude you mean here is not a good thing, > but I was wondering which of the "not good things" connoted by > liberal you were referring to here. Liberal is a good thing imo. In the sense of using a text as a kind of building-stone for a new text (not unlike Derrida's note on a note in _Sein und Zeit_) - the way composers "cite" other composers, sculptors use tin cans, etc. This liberal use might not only be seen as legitimated by hermeneutical over-estimation but also as the product of a specific kind of hermeneutical over-estimation. Cf. your example: > Jeremiah creates a moment of prophecy out of interpretation > when he over-estimates certain moments in the Exodus account > of the covenant. Just a thought, is hermeneutical over-estimation not the only (true) kind of hermeneutics? Kindest regards, Henk --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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