Introduction – On the Challenge of Migration: Critical Hermeneutical Perspectives

Critical Hermeneutics 2 (1) (2018)
  Copy   BIBTEX

Abstract

At first glance, it could seem slightly out of place to dedicate an issue of a newly founded journal dedicated to hermeneutics – albeit to a critical strand of hermeneutics – to a topic such as migration, forced displacements or refugees. Indeed, for the lay reader, is not hermeneutics, at least methodologically, primarily concerned with the interpretation of texts? Let us concede, still at this first, naïve level, that such an approach might indeed look strange. But allow us to wager that it might contribute to grasp what is at stake and perhaps even change the terms of this fundamental debate. Indeed, when applied to an analysis of societies as such, including their political and ethical problems, it provides a perspective that is lacking in other approaches...

Links

PhilArchive



    Upload a copy of this work     Papers currently archived: 90,616

External links

Setup an account with your affiliations in order to access resources via your University's proxy server

Through your library

Similar books and articles

Hermeneutics: an introduction to interpretive theory.Stanley E. Porter - 2011 - Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans. Edited by Jason Robinson.
Malaysia and forced migration.Arzura Idris - 2012 - Intellectual Discourse 20 (1).
Introduction: education and migration.Julian Culp & Danielle Zwarthoed - 2018 - Journal of Global Ethics 14 (1):5-10.
Philosophical Hermeneutics, 30th Anniversary Edition.David E. Linge (ed.) - 2008 - University of California Press.
Philosophical Hermeneutics: 30th Anniversary Edition.David E. Linge (ed.) - 2008 - University of California Press.
Justice in migration.Christine Straehle - 2018 - Canadian Journal of Philosophy 48 (2):245-265.

Analytics

Added to PP
2019-03-04

Downloads
3 (#1,519,925)

6 months
1 (#1,040,386)

Historical graph of downloads
How can I increase my downloads?

Author's Profile

Alison Scott-Baumann
School of Oriental and African Studies

Citations of this work

No citations found.

Add more citations

References found in this work

No references found.

Add more references