The Parable as Performance: Interpretation, Cultural Transmission and Political Strategy in Lessing's Nathan der Weise
Lessing's Parable of the Rings articulates a hermeneutics that is examined in terms of its political implications. By transforming the traditional Christian Gleichnis and the Hebrew Maschal, the text subverts significant hermeneutic assumptions governing interpretation theory and practice in th...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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1988
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The German quarterly
Year: 1988, Volume: 61, Issue: 4, Pages: 502-527 |
| Further subjects: | B
Girard, René (1923-2015)
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| Summary: | Lessing's Parable of the Rings articulates a hermeneutics that is examined in terms of its political implications. By transforming the traditional Christian Gleichnis and the Hebrew Maschal, the text subverts significant hermeneutic assumptions governing interpretation theory and practice in the 18th century. The text neither simply represents nor prescribes a hermeneutic canon, but rather incites the reader to poetic acts of hermeneutic intervention that disrupt authority's unquestioned transmission of culture. |
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| ISSN: | 1756-1183 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The German quarterly
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/406258 |