Download or read book Hermeneutics as Politics written by Stanley Rosen and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1987 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This, the first of four volumes in the new Odeon series on continental philosophy, is an attempt to construe the interpretation of texts (ie the art of hermeneutics) as a political answer to a given historical situation. Professor Rosen views interpretation as the result neither of changing fashion nor of innocent playfulness, but rather as a self-conscious (even if disguised or concealed) political strategy. In this book, he discusses the German hermeneutical tradition, the Alexander Kojeve-Leo Straus relationship, and current leading continental and American philosophers such as Derrida and.