George Steiner THE HERMENEUTIC MOTION THE HERMENEUTIC MOTION, the act of elicitation and appropriative transfer of meaning, is fourfold. There is initiative trust, an investment of belief, underwritten by previous experience but epistemologically exposed and psychologically hazardous, in the meaningfulness, in the ³seriousness´ of the facing or, strictly speaking, adverse text. We venture a leap: we grant ab initio that there is ³something there´ to be understood, that the transfer will not be void. All understanding, and the demonstrative statement of understanding which is translation, start
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