“Explanatory interpretation makes
us aware that explanation is contextual, is ‘horizonal.’ It must be made within
a horizon of already granted meanings and intentions. In hermeneutics, this
area of assumed understanding is called preunderstanding.” (p24)
Annotation:
Interpretation for explanatory purposes works in
a context of established meanings
with granted intentions. In phenomenology
this is defined as horizonal.
In the Husserlian transcendental school this allows for bracketing of
experience to be set, and in Heideggerian phenomenology this horizonality focuses on the pre-understanding that interpreters bring to what
they are analysing. “Heidegger’s analysis indicated
that ‘understanding’
and ‘interpretation’
are foundational modes of man’s being” (p42).
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