Hermeneutical Dialectics
Reconnecting Text and Social Struggle
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.6093/2284-0184/9787Keywords:
Hermeneutics, Marxism, Text, Dialectics, FreedomAbstract
This article investigates textual interpretation within the framework of dialectics – especially within Marxism. It argues that interpretation is a tool for securing political interests by different classes in society. Since the text has been weaponized by the different classes who appropriate it for their differing interests, the interpretation of it becomes a form of class struggle. The writer itself is not free because his/her mind is tied to apron strings of the class that he/she belongs and whose interests it tries to secure with the text. This affects the manner the writer presents facts and perspectives in the text. The implication of this for our study is that the text is not a neutral phenomenon as often presumed by lay readers – who themselves are victims of their own ignorance.
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