Table of contents

Critical Hermeneutics

A professional pathway for interpreting meaning, belief, language, signs, and the unconscious with philosophical rigor

Read each section in order. Every title can be opened as a TheoryTrace document.

• Cover
• Copyright
• How to read this book
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: What Critical Thinking Becomes in the Human Sciences
• Chapter 2: Logic, Argument, and Conceptual Precision
• Chapter 3: Epistemology for Interpreters
• Chapter 4: Hermeneutics: Meaning, Context, and the Circle of Interpretation
• Chapter 5: Phenomenology and the Structures of Experience
• Chapter 6: Language Before Theory: Grammar, Use, and Meaning
• Chapter 7: Structural Linguistics and the Birth of Modern Semiotics
• Chapter 8: Peircean Semiotics: Sign, Object, Interpretant
• Chapter 9: Semiotic Systems, Codes, and Cultural Meaning
• Chapter 10: Psychoanalysis as a Theory of Meaning
• Chapter 11: Lacan, Language, and the Subject
• Chapter 12: Religion as Symbolic Form and Lived Practice
• Chapter 13: Myth, Ritual, and Narrative Worlds
• Chapter 14: Ideology, Power, and Critique
• Chapter 15: Structuralism, Post-Structuralism, and Deconstruction
• Chapter 16: Methods of Textual and Discourse Analysis
• Chapter 17: Comparative Method and the Problem of Translation
• Chapter 18: Evidence, Case Construction, and Interpretive Validity
• Chapter 19: Ethics of Interpretation
• Chapter 20: Integrative Analysis: From Sign to Subject to Sacred Order
• Chapter 21: Professional Practice: Writing, Teaching, and Public Critique
• Chapter 22: Research Program Design for Advanced Critical Inquiry
• Conclusion