hermeneutischer Zirkel
To pose a question we must already stand inside some preliminary understanding of what it asks about.
In lecture order, as Marci Shore presents each view. The time opens that minute of the lecture on YouTube.
Asking what Being is presupposes some rough prior sense of it; without that, the question could not even be framed. The questioner is already inside: the hermeneutic circle.
Put simply Heidegger: to ask what being is, we must already have a rough sense of what "to be" means, or we could not even ask. The asker is already inside the question. This is the "hermeneutic circle".
The opening of The Second Sex, Shore suggests, echoes Being and Time's hermeneutic circle: to be able even to ask what a woman is, one must already half-understand the answer.
Put simply Shore: The Second Sex opens with a move like Heidegger's "hermeneutic circle": to be able even to ask "what is a woman?," you must already half-understand the answer.
Derrida's opening question on writing echoes Heidegger twice: needing a preliminary idea of writing before asking where it begins is the hermeneutic circle, and "always already" is Heidegger's phrase.
Put simply Shore hears Heidegger twice in Derrida. To ask where writing begins, you must already have some idea of what writing is: Heidegger's "hermeneutic circle." And "always already" is Heidegger's phrase.
1 link between claims that both use the term. Each shows the earlier claim, then the later one that answers it. “Our inference” marks a link Shore does not state outright.
HeideggerAsking what Being is presupposes some rough prior sense of it; without that, the question could not even be framed. The questioner is already inside: the hermeneutic circle. L12 · 19:52
ShoreDerrida's opening question on writing echoes Heidegger twice: needing a preliminary idea of writing before asking where it begins is the hermeneutic circle, and "always already" is Heidegger's phrase. L22 · 23:11
Shore hears echoes of Heidegger's hermeneutic circle in Derrida's point that one must already know what writing is to ask where it begins.
Terms that appear in the same claims.