Abstract
The history of hermeneutics is a conversation about knowledge. ‘Hermeneutics: a brief history’ begins with knowledge in the ancient world, where not only mathematics and logic, but also poetry, rhetoric, and philosophy were counted as important sources of objective truth. This view of knowledge changed from the 14th century onwards. The ancients asked how knowledge could enable a virtuous life; moderns focus more on the epistemological question: ‘how we can know that something is true?’ But whose interpretation of truth was the right one? The thinking of René Descartes, Daniel Friedrich Schleiermacher, Wilhelm Dilthey, Edmund Husserl, and Martin Heidegger is explained before considering hermeneutics after Heidegger.
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