Intercultural Hermeneutics and the Cross-cultural Subject

Bibliographic Data

ID3619940
AuthorsVince Marotta (0000-0002-7298-8834, Deakin University, corresponding author)
Year2009
Volume30
Issue3
Pages267-284
Publication date2009-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Intercultural Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0725-6868 • E-ISSN: 1469-9540
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/07256860903003575
OpenAlexW2013945070
LanguageEN
Citations received15
References cited33

The paper critically engages with contemporary theories of cross-cultural understanding and cross-cultural subjectivity found in the areas of intercultural hermeneutics, intercultural social theory and the discourse on the stranger. Drawing on Gadamerian hermeneutics the paper takes some preliminary steps in formulating an alternative conception of the in-between subject and cross-cultural interpretation that incorporates the ambivalence of boundaries, the enabling dimension of essentialism and acknowledges the role that fore-meanings and fore-structures have on cross-cultural understanding. In contrast to existing theories I conclude that the cross-cultural subject is situated within the intercultural encounter rather than dwelling above it

Ambivalence · Cross-cultural · Epistemology · Essentialism · Hermeneutics · Linguistics · Situated · Sociology · Subjectivity · Anthropology · Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition · Philosophy · Political and Social Issues · Psychology · Social Psychology