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The thematization of an interpretive element in experience and knowledge has been continuous in the general theory of knowledge since the late decades of the 18th century. Interpretation theory may be seen to have been initiated by Kant's critical philosophy as the epistemological culmination of Enlightenment modernity, reconciling its internal controversy between rationalism and empiricism. After Kant, the problems of interpretation and the clarification of a theory of interpretation became central to Hegel and Marx and to various 19th century social philosophies and philosophies of history; to 20th century pragmatism and sociology of knowledge; and to later 20th century transcendental phenomenology, ontological hermeneutics, critical theory, and deconstruction.

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-009-2466-6_3

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