Fourfold Transcendence of Practical Hermeneutics to Philosophical Hermeneutics——Centered on Theses on Feuerbach
Theses on Feuerbach is an original text reflecting Marx's hermeneutic thought.By contemplating the "ontological" nature of the scientific historical existence,Marx gave hermeneutics a practical ontological foundation and achieved an "ontological turn" in his interpretation almost a hundred years before Heidegger did.Grounded in perceptual reality,Marx's practical hermeneutics goes beyond the philosophical hermeneutics initiated by Heidegger in four dimensions.First,the base of interpretation is not subjective "foresight",but the material practice of human society.Marx stipulated the legitimacy of "practice" as the base of hermeneutics from three levels:the structure of hermeneutics,the content of hermeneutics and the method of hermeneutics.Second,the historical field of hermeneutics is not the "history of ideas" such as"tradition" and "authority",but the "history of practice" rooted in the daily life of human beings.This document's argument about the nature of man and the nature of social life shows that only by starting from "history of practice" can we achieve true "Horizontverschmelzung".Third,the purpose of hermeneutics is not to "explain the world",but to "change the world".The last article of Theses on Feuerbach outlines the dialectical relationship between explaining the world and changing it.Fourth,the character of hermeneutics is not conservatism and obedience.As a masterpiece of Marx's critique of the "foresight",Theses on Feuerbach demonstrates the theoretical character:critique in interpretation and interpretation in critique,which is the only way to ensure the eternal vitality of hermeneutics.
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