文化解释学引论

A Primary Discussion on Cultural Hermeneutics

解释学旨在克服时空间距以达成对文本意义的理解和阐释,而文化间距是空间性的最基本形态。在后期现代社会中,文化冲突成为主要矛盾,因此历史解释学转向文化解释学。文化解释学的依据在于各民族交往中形成的主体间性和文化间性,从而能够通过对话达成文化视域的融合,进而理解和阐释他文化文本的意义。另外,文化阐释也有其有限性,存在着文化之间的不对称性导致的视域差异,因此文化阐释也有不合理性和偏向性,也包括对阐释文本的批判。合理的文化阐释在于阐释视域的开放性和先进性。

Hermeneutics aims to understand and interpret the meaning of a text by overcoming the time-space distance,but cultural distance is the most basic form of spatiality. In the late modern society,cultural conflict becomes the principal contradiction,so historical hermeneutics has turned to cultural hermeneutics. The basis of cultural hermeneutics lies in the intersubjectivity and interculturality formed in the communication among different nationalities so as to achieve the integration of cultural horizons through dialogue and thus understand and interpret the meaning of other cultural texts. In addition,cultural interpretation also has its limitations for there are differences of horizon caused by cultural asymmetry,hence there is also irrationality and bias in cultural interpretation,including criticism of interpretative texts. Reasonable cultural interpretation lies in the openness and progressiveness of the interpretative horizon.