Hermeneutics

Hermeneutics is the study of interpretation and its name originates from the Greek God Hermes, the messenger god.  The word exegesis and hermeneutics have been used interchangeably.  Hermeneutics is the more widely defined one however; and it is a type of knowledge and a discipline that deals with interpretation.  There are many different types of hermeneutics, but there are five that we will be our focus: natural, normative, scientific, philosophical, and depth hermeneutics. 

Natural hermeneutics is the spontaneous everyday interpretation that is usually unreflective when we break down the understanding of inter-subjectivity.  I am trying to pursue a career in broadcasting, whether it be television, radio, or some other form does not really matter to me, I am just interested in broadcasting as a whole.  When looking at natural hermeneutics to this career i see it as a very simplistic analysis.  People would be listening to the messages I would be portraying through their senses.  They would be absorbing the words i would be saying and they would understand which each individual word compiled together would make a story come into their heads.  The simple understanding of the signs I would be sending them would be able to make them realize what I was trying to portray.  

Normative hermeneutics is the art of text interpretation as a deliberate discipline by a specialist caste.  Judges reading law and interpreting the meaning would be a way of normative hermeneutics.  In my case the way in which broadcasting uses normative hermeneutics is simple.  Every word that is said is important.  Some words not only depict what item is being portrayed, but other words present a time.  If I say that I read in the newspaper, someone will be able to realize that I absorbed the information from the newspaper sometime in the past just from that one word. 

Scientific hermeneutics is the foundational discipline of the human or historical sciences.

Philosophical hermeneutics is a general philosophy of existence and it shows that interpreting is less what we do and more what we are- interpreters. 

Depth hermeneutics of hermeneutics of suspicion is the enlightenment project of emancipation and liberation from social dogma and oppression.