POSTHERMENEUTICA: HERMENEUTICS IN THE POSTMODERN STUDY OF RELIGIONS

Abstract

Postmodernity advocates the heterogeneity of the text, destroying its homogeneity, by linking up to its reader rather than the author-text relationship as well as by deforming it, changing it; by doing so, it aims to bring about some specific theories such as poststructuralism (post-structuralism), de-structuralism, negative rationalism and negative reading. In this article, after having enlisted the theories about hermeneutics done by classical, modernist and postmodernist philosophers we examined the basic composite elements of posthermeneutics such as reader-centered reading, critical understanding proper to the reader, subjective-dialogical language, instant or present time-history, individual deconstructive narration, critical pluralist and negative-reason, and negative aesthetics. In this context we may say that posthermeneutics is bound not only to postmodern religious phenomenon, but also to the theories of interpretation produced in the fields such as secular literature and civil law, insisting on various possibilities of understanding as well as more diverse theories oriented towards more sharpened and radical interpretations.

Keywords

• modernism,postmodernism,study of religions,hermeneutics,interpretation

POSTHERMENEUTICA: POSTMODERN DİN BİLİMLERİNDE HERMENÖTİK

Abstract

Postmodernite, yazar-metin ilişkisinden ziyade okuyucuya bağlı metin anlayışını geliştirmek, değiştirmek, şeklini bozmak, yapısını sökmek suretiyle metnin homojenliğini ortadan kaldırıp “heterojenliğini” savunmakta; bunu yaparken kendine özgü “ileri yapısalcılık (post-structuralism), yapı-sökücü (destructionist) negatif akılcılık, negatif okuma gibi özgün teoriler geliştirmeyi” amaçlamaktadır. Bu makalede Hermenötik biliminin tarihini klasik, modern ve postmodern filozofların teorilerini listeleyerek verdikten sonra eleştirel özellikte okuyucu merkezli okuma, okuyucuyla uyumlu eleştirel anlama, mitten arındırılmış sübjektif diyalojik dil, şimdiki öznel zaman veya tarih, bireysel yapı-bozucu anlatı, negatif, çoğulcu eleştirel akıl ve negatif estetik gibi posthermenötiğin temel yorumlama yapıtaşlarını inceledik. Bu bağlamda diyebiliriz ki Post-Hermenötik, postmoderniteye bağlı geliştirilen sadece özgün din olgusuna değil, seküler edebiyat ve sivil hukuk gibi alanlarda yorum teorileri üreterek çeşitli anlama imkânlarına veyahut yorum farklılıklarına vurgu yapmakta; böylelikle hiç olmadığından daha keskin ve radikal yorumlara yönelebilmektedir.

Keywords

• modernizm,postmodernizm,Hermenötik,din bilimleri,yorum

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