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Hermeneutics: Reconstruction or Dialogue

Hermeneutics, which was a method of discovering the truth in sacred texts, became a general method of understanding in its course of development. Schliermaeher and Dilthey used hermeneutics as a method of understanding the life of mind. This kind of hermeneutics is referred to as subject-centric. Max Weber used this method in his outstanding classical The Protestant Ethics and the Spirit of Capitalism. Yet, with the linguistic turn in the beginning of the 20th century, subject was replaced by language as the main category of understanding. Gadamerʹs linguistic-centered hermeneutics advanced the idea that discovering the truth is possible through dialogue among traditions in the context of their historical development. Habermas, criticizing the shortcomings of Gadamerʹs hermeneutics, suggests that understanding the life-world and everyday life is possible only through a dialogue aimed at redeeming the communication from distortion.