| Pub. Date | : June, 2022 |
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| Product Name | : The IUP Journal of English Studies |
| Product Type | : Article |
| Product Code | : IJES100622 |
| Author Name | :Sharanpal Singh |
| Availability | : YES |
| Subject/Domain | : Arts & Humanities |
| Download Format | : PDF Format |
| No. of Pages | : 11 |
The paper deliberates on hermeneutics, not as it was used to interpret the scriptures, but its later application to the explication and interpretation of treatises, especially literary texts, its plurality and perspectival nature, as also its being not monologic but cognitive and dialogical. It brings together different disciplines, videlicet, sundry branches of philosophy, contemporary critical theory, politics, sociology, linguistics, cultural studies, religion, art and literature or humanistic studies, in general. It is for this purpose that the insights from earlier philosophers, like Hegel and Nietzsche, or later ones, like Mead, Dewey, Derrida Rorty, Bourdieu, and Ranciere, are helpful, but a text's significance and semantics can be comprehended holistically by taking cognizance of both discursive and nondiscursive aspects, the latter being more helpful concerning performing arts. The concept and its ambit of signification need constant revisiting and reappraising to maintain its relevance and efficacy.