hermeneutics of suspicion

 

  • Felski further writes: [Marx, Freud, and Nietzsche] share a commitment to unmasking ‘the lies and illusions of consciousness’; they are the architects of a distinctively modern
    style of interpretation that circumvents obvious or self-evident meanings in order to draw out less visible and less flattering truths… Ricoeur’s term has sustained an energetic after-life within religious studies, as well as in philosophy,
    intellectual history, and related fields.

  • The title of the work indicates his dialogue between claims of “truth” on the one hand and the processes of “method” on the other—in brief, the hermeneutics of faith and the
    hermeneutics of suspicion.

  • “[10][11] According to literary theorist Rita Felski, hermeneutics of suspicion is “a distinctively modern style of interpretation that circumvents obvious or self-evident
    meanings in order to draw out less visible and less flattering truths.”

  • “[13] In that sense, it can be seen as being related to ideology critique.

  • The hermeneutics of suspicion is a style of literary interpretation in which texts are read with skepticism in order to expose their purported repressed or hidden meanings.

 

Works Cited

[‘1. Felski, Rita (2011). “Suspicious Minds”. Poetics Today. 32 (2): 215–234. doi:10.1215/03335372-1261208.
2. ^ Ricoeur, Paul (2013). Le Conflit des interprétations. Essais d’herméneutique. Paris: Média Diffusion. ISBN 978-2-02114500-7. Quote. 1st
ed: 1969.
3. ^ Jump up to:a b Ricoeur, Paul (2008). Freud and Philosophy. An Essay on Interpretation. Denis Savage (transl.). New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press. pp. 33, 35. ISBN 978-8-12083305-0. 1st ed: 1970.
4. ^ “The Homme Fatal
and the Subversion of Suspicion in ‘Mr Brooks’ and ‘The Killer Inside Me’.” AU: UQ.
5. ^ Ricoeur, Paul (2014). De l’interprétation. Essai sur Freud. Paris: Média Diffusion. ISBN 978-2-02106836-8. Quote. 1st ed: 1965.
6. ^ Jump up to:a b Ricœur,
Paul (2008), p. 32.
7. ^ Dole, Andrew. 2018. Reframing the Masters of Suspicion: Marx, Nietzsche, and Freud, p. 2.
8. ^ Robinson, G. D., Paul Ricoeur and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion: A Brief Overview and Critique, University of Toronto Press.
9. ^
Jasper, D., A Short Introduction to Hermeneutics (Louisville, KY & London: Westminster John Knox Press, 2004), pp. 106–107.
10. ^ Josselson, Ruthellen (1 July 2004). “The Hermeneutics of Faith and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion” (PDF). Narrative
Inquiry. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company. 14 (1): 1–28. doi:10.1075/ni.14.1.01jos. ISSN 1387-6740. Archived from the original on 6 February 2016.
11. ^ Scott-Baumann, A. 2009, Ricoeur and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion, London & New
York: Continuum.
12. ^ Felski, Rita (2012). “Critique and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion”. M/C Journal. 15 (1). doi:10.5204/mcj.431.
13. ^ Felski, Rita (Autumn 2011). “Context Stinks” (PDF). New Literary History. Baltimore, Maryland: Johns Hopkins
University Press. 42 (4): 573–91. doi:10.1353/nlh.2011.0045. S2CID 201779165.
14. ^ Giusti, F., “Passionate Affinities: A Conversation with Rita Felski”, Los Angeles Review of Books, September 25, 2019.
Photo credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nanagyei/8562853756/’]