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Dilthey, Gadamer, and Facebook: Towards a New Hermeneutics of the Social Network
Craig, Robert (2015): Dilthey, Gadamer, and Facebook: Towards a New Hermeneutics of the Social Network, in: Modern Language Review, London: MHRA, Jg. 110, Nr. 1, S. 184–203, doi: 10.5699/modelangrevi.110.1.0184.
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Modern Language Review
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0026-7937
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Year of publication:
2015
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110
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1
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English
Abstract:
This article offers a rereading of aspects of the twentieth-century German hermeneutic tradition, with a specific emphasis on Wilhelm Dilthey and Hans-Georg Gadamer. It aims to show how we could re-evaluate their work's relevance in relation to twenty-first-century cultures of online social networking, and with particular reference to Facebook. Dilthey's methodological conception of the human sciences finds, it argues, a contemporary instantiation in the increasingly unsettling possibilities of interpersonal 'objectification' and 'identification' within this virtual context. The article suggests, in turn, how Gadamer's dialogical hermeneutics could invite a fruitful rethinking of both the digitally mediated self and her social network.
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Philosophical hermeneutics
German philosophy
Phenomenology
Online social networks
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Article
Activation date:
August 7, 2017
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https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/handle/uniba/42354