The Fascination of Cultural Hermeneutics: The Art of Understanding

Yousefi, Hamid Reza

The Fascination of Cultural Hermeneutics: The Art of Understanding

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Hamid Reza Yousefi

Professor in Potsdam & Saarland Universities in Germany

Abstract

In this article the idea of a contextual communication on the basis of a dialogical hermeneutics of cultures is introduced. To work contextually means to be open to the fact that different traditions appear on a scene with immanent terminologies, issues, and solutions as equal discoursive contributions from their individual perspective.

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